Beginning Sounds with Musical Instruments — Letter G

Tune the ear to G. Across a scene of instruments, this Kindergarten worksheet has the child say each picture and circle the ones that begin with the sound G makes — guitar. Hearing how guitar opens and matching that sound to the letter G is beginning-sound phonics; the printed letter shape never comes into it. The a drum, a bell and a flute give a rich mix of first sounds to listen through.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like G's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — guitar and the rest of the instruments — and connect it to G. A scene of a drum, a bell and a flute offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

A child who hears that guitar opens with the G sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the A-sound pictures in musical instruments, or the C-sound pictures in musical instruments. The full instruments collection and every beginning-sounds worksheet are free to print or play online for kindergarten, and every first sound a child catches builds toward sounding out whole words later.