Beginning Letter Match with Dinosaurs

This Kindergarten worksheet pairs each picture with the letter it starts with. Down one side are dinosaurs — pictures like a T. rex, a stegosaurus and a raptor — 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.

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 dinosaurs pictures with letters rehearses it in a clear, confidence-building way. The focus stays on the opening sound.

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