Beginning Sounds with Kitchen Tools — Letter L

Which kitchen tools begin with L? On this Kindergarten worksheet the child says each picture and keeps the ones that start with L's sound — ladle and lid. Sounding out the start of ladle and deciding whether it matches the letter L is letter-sound work, the bedrock of reading. The scene is full of a spoon, a whisk and a pan, so there are plenty of first sounds to compare against L.

To find what begins with L, a child must say each picture and isolate its first sound, then judge whether it matches L. That is the heart of early phonics — knowing the sound a letter makes and catching it at the front of words like ladle. The varied a spoon, a whisk and a pan keep a wide set of opening sounds in play, so the work never narrows to one rehearsed answer; the child really has to listen.

Once a child can pick the L sound out of a word like ladle, that same careful listening works everywhere. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the A-sound pictures in kitchen tools, or the B-sound pictures in kitchen tools. Every beginning-sounds worksheet and the full kitchen tools set are free to print or play online for kindergarten, and each first sound a child names makes the next letter that little bit quicker to catch.