Beginning Letter Match with Thanksgiving

What letter does it start with? On this matching sheet a child connects each Thanksgiving things picture to its beginning letter. Looking at a turkey, a pumpkin and a pie 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.

Letter-sound knowledge is the bedrock of early decoding, and a beginning-letter match builds it one picture at a time: hear the word, catch its first sound, find the letter. For Kindergarten that is foundational reading practice, and using familiar Thanksgiving things pictures lets a child focus on the sound-to-letter link without needing to read whole words yet.

Children who like matching thanksgiving things to their beginning letters get quicker at hearing first sounds each time. When this feels easy, match the letters in beginning letters with things that fly, or try beginning letters with vegetables. 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.