Beginning Letter Match with Trees

Draw a line from each picture to its beginning letter. This Kindergarten worksheet sets trees — an oak, a pine and a palm and more — beside a row of letters, and the child pairs each picture with the letter that starts its name. Connecting a word's first sound to its letter builds the letter-sound knowledge at the heart of learning to read, and the familiar pictures make every match about hearing that opening sound.

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 trees to their beginning letters get quicker at hearing first sounds each time. When this feels easy, match the letters in beginning letters with vegetables, or try beginning letters with zoo animals. 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.