Beginning Letter Match with Fourth of July Things

This Kindergarten worksheet pairs each picture with the letter it starts with. Down one side are Fourth of July things — pictures like flags, stars and a drum — and down the other are letters; the child draws a line from each picture to its beginning letter, the one that makes the sound the word starts with. Listening for that first sound and matching it to the right letter builds letter-sound knowledge, the foundation of early reading.

Matching a picture to its beginning letter rehearses letter-sound correspondence — the link between a sound and the letter that spells it, which Common Core's foundational reading skills put at the heart of Kindergarten. A child who can hear a word's first sound and find its letter is building the decoding foundation that early reading depends on, and pictures make the practice concrete.

Children who like matching fourth of july things to their beginning letters get quicker at hearing first sounds each time. When this feels easy, match the letters in beginning letters with accessories, or try beginning letters with supermarket things. You can also browse every beginning-letter worksheet or the whole kindergarten collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more a child matches, the surer their grasp of letter sounds grows, building the phonics foundation that reading words rests on.