Beginning Letter Match with Clothes

What letter does it start with? On this matching sheet a child connects each clothes picture to its beginning letter. Looking at a shirt, a sock and a hat and the others, the child says the word, listens for the first sound, and draws a line to the letter that makes it. Matching pictures to their starting letters is beginning letter-sound practice — the core decoding skill Kindergarten readers are building.

The skill here is phonemic and alphabetic at once: a child isolates a word's beginning sound and matches it to its letter. That correspondence is exactly what Common Core's foundational reading skills ask of Kindergarten, and pairing clothes pictures with letters rehearses it in a clear, confidence-building way. The focus stays on the opening sound.

Children who like matching clothes to their beginning letters get quicker at hearing first sounds each time. When this feels easy, match the letters in beginning letters with colors, or try beginning letters with feelings. 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.