Beginning Sounds with Musical Instruments — Letter S

This Kindergarten sheet is all about the sound S makes at the start of a word. The child hunts the instruments, says each one, and marks stage — the names that open with S. Stretching stage to hear its first sound and tying it to the letter S is how children learn the sound-letter links that reading will lean on, and a scene of a drum, a bell and a flute supplies plenty to sort.

Hearing the opening sound of a spoken word and tying it to a letter is exactly the letter-sound correspondence Kindergarten readers build. Marking the instruments that begin with S rehearses it many times: say stage, listen to its start, match S. Because the child works from pictures and their own voice, no reading is needed — just the ear and the growing sense that S stands for one particular sound.

Listening for S across a scene of instruments turns phonics into a game, and finishing one letter invites the next. Try the A-sound pictures in musical instruments, or the C-sound pictures in musical instruments. Browse all the beginning-sounds worksheets or the entire instruments set, free to print or play online for kindergarten, and watch how quickly a child starts catching the first sound in a word on their own.