Say My Sound: Beginning Letter Worksheet for Preschoolers
This is a companion beginning-sounds sheet with a new set of pictures, giving your child more practice isolating the first sound of a word — a skill that only really sticks with repeated exposure across different words, not a single worksheet. Circling instead of coloring the answer keeps the response quick and low-effort, so more of the session goes toward the listening task itself.
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How to use this worksheet
Name each picture together first, emphasizing the very first sound before saying the rest of the word. Have your child point to or say the letter they think matches that sound, then circle it with a pencil or crayon. Go back through the finished page afterward and say each word-and-letter pair aloud together as a quick recap.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- 1Clap once for every sound in a word to help your child hear where the first sound ends.
- 2Play a matching game pairing small objects with letter cards based on their starting sound.
- 3Ask your child to think of one more word that starts with each letter on the page.
- 4Sing an alphabet song that pauses on each letter to name something that starts with it.
- 5Take turns being the 'sound detective' — one person says a word, the other names the first letter.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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