Beginning Sounds with Musical Instruments — Letter D

Which instruments begin with D? On this Kindergarten worksheet the child says each picture and keeps the ones that start with D's sound — drum. Sounding out the start of drum and deciding whether it matches the letter D is letter-sound work, the bedrock of reading. The scene is full of a drum, a bell and a flute, so there are plenty of first sounds to compare against D.

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

Children who enjoy hunting the instruments settle into saying each picture and listening for the D sound, and every match is a small win. When D feels easy, try the beginning sounds in the A-sound pictures in musical instruments, or the C-sound pictures in musical instruments. You can also browse every beginning-sounds worksheet or the whole instruments collection for kindergarten — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more first sounds a child hunts, the quicker the link between a sound and its letter becomes automatic.