Beginning Sounds with Musical Instruments — Letter K

Tune the ear to K. Across a scene of instruments, this Kindergarten worksheet has the child say each picture and circle the ones that begin with the sound K makes — keyboard. Hearing how keyboard opens and matching that sound to the letter K 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.

Producing the match — deciding that keyboard begins with K — asks a child to do real phonics: hold the sound K makes in mind and test each picture's opening against it. Because the instruments include names that begin other ways, the child cannot guess; they have to listen. That careful sound-by-sound checking against the letter K is precisely what Kindergarten reading is built on.

A child who hears that keyboard opens with the K 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. Before finishing, sound out keyboard slowly so the K at the very front of it rings out clear and sure.