Beginning Letter Match with Spring

Pair each picture with the letter it starts with. On this Kindergarten sheet a child connects spring things — a flower, a raindrop and a kite and others — to a set of letters, listening for each word's first sound and matching it to the right one. That beginning letter-sound matching is the core decoding foundation Kindergarten readers build, and the familiar pictures keep every line about the sound a word starts with.

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 spring things to their beginning letters get quicker at hearing first sounds each time. When this feels easy, match the letters in beginning letters with summer, or try beginning letters with toys. 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.