Beginning Sounds with Kitchen Tools — Letter C

On this worksheet a child sorts kitchen tools by their first sound. Given the letter C, they find cutting board, cake pan and colander — the pictures that begin with the sound C stands for — among a scene of a spoon, a whisk and a pan. They say cutting board out loud, hear where it starts, and connect that sound to C. This is beginning-sound matching, the Kindergarten skill of linking a sound to its letter, not a search for the letter's shape.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like C's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — cutting board and the rest of the kitchen tools — and connect it to C. A scene of a spoon, a whisk and a pan offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

Hunting a scene of kitchen tools for the letter C is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After C, keep the listening going with the A-sound pictures in kitchen tools, or the B-sound pictures in kitchen tools. The whole kitchen tools collection and every beginning-sounds sheet print cleanly or play free online for kindergarten — and the more opening sounds a child sorts, the more automatic the sound-to-letter link becomes.