Beginning Sounds with Winter — Letter B

Begin with boots and listen to its first sound. This sheet asks the child to find every one of the winter things that starts the same way as B — boots — and mark them. The point is the sound at the front of each word and the letter B it belongs to, the Kindergarten letter-sound link, set in a scene mixing snow, a mitten and a scarf so the child sifts many opening sounds to find B's.

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

A child who hears that boots opens with the B sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the C-sound pictures in winter, or the E-sound pictures in winter. The full winter things 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.