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Looking for beginning sounds worksheets? We’ve got a set of 26!

I love these letter sounds activities because they're not your typical worksheet. Print one for each letter, and help your child cover the pictures that start with that letter's sound. Great for pre-readers!

In the download, you’ll get one page for every letter of the alphabet.  Each page focuses on a single sound, even for letters which have two sounds (a, e, i, o, u, g, and c) .  By naming the big picture at the bottom right, your child will be able to figure out the sound of the focus letter. (“/a/ /a/ Alligator.”)

I love these letter sounds activities because they're not your typical worksheet. Print one for each letter, and help your child cover the pictures that start with that letter's sound. Great for pre-readers!

I brought out the letter J page to try with my two-year-old (his birthday’s next month).  We began with J because it’s the first letter of his name.   He doesn’t recognize most of the alphabet, but he’s excited whenever he finds a J: “J is my letter!”

I wasn’t sure what to expect, because we haven’t done a lot of focused learning yet.  As it turned out, he was in no way ready for these!  I named each picture, slowly emphasizing the beginning sound, and comparing it to the /j/ sound.

“Look at the first picture.  Envelope.  /eh/, /eh/, envelope.”  Do you hear a “j” sound?”

“Yes!”

Even after working through the whole page, it was clear that he wasn’t grasping the concept of “beginning sounds.”   However, he loved naming the pictures after I did and covering them with the poker chips.

All this means is that he doesn’t have the phonemic awareness skill of isolating a word’s beginning sound.  No matter! We’ll be working on phonemic awareness and learning about the alphabet at an appropriate pace beginning in January.  It will all come together in time!

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How can you use these?

  • As a together time activity for your young child who is just starting to learn letters and sounds (that’s what we’ll be doing!)
  • As a review for an older preschooler or kindergartner who has a good grasp of the alphabet

How should you store these?

I left enough space at the top for you to hole punch them and put them in a binder.  If you print on cardstock, they’ll be nice and sturdy. No need to laminate unless you expect to get a lot of use out of them… if you’ll be using these beginning sounds worksheets in the classroom, laminating is a great idea!

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77 Comments

  1. Teresa

    I am dying to try out this letter sound cover game but the click here link takes me to a Perry real estate site.

    Is there any way I could get this awesome set of worksheets emailed to me?

    Thank you so much for any help you can give.
    T

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    • Kate Dowling

      Hi Teresa!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. Sorry you had trouble! The green box that says, “To get your free printable, CLICK HERE” is the box you want. Be sure to click it right in the middle so you don’t accidentally click on an ad. Enjoy these activity pages!

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  6. Dripti

    Hi Anna!

    I love love love your resources. I am a teacher and your resources are helping me move away from worksheets.

    Thanks a ton for doing us a service by preparing all these resources.

    God bless you!

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  7. Nirmala G Krishnan

    Dear Anna,
    Lovely printables! Really helpful for my literacy sessions. I am able to work with the unique type of worksheets. Thank you so much for your passion and effort.

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  10. Michelle Wyke-Thomas

    Thanks so much, this is perfect. I am a remedial teacher and it’s difficult to find worksheets that engage a child without causing them to feel it’s too babyish. The children love the hands -activity and willingly accept a challenge to race against me, or each other. They think of it as a game and make no fuss about the level (though this is what they need as children with learning difficulties).

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    • Anna Geiger

      That’s wonderful, Michelle! I love that you’re turning it into a happy competition. Thanks so much for taking the time to let me know how this is working for your students. That helps me so much when planning future printables.

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  11. Sarah

    Just wanted to say thank you. I just found these and my kiddo enjoyed the change of pace. It was great practice for the beginning sound we are working on. I am so grateful you create and share for free. It’s a huge blessing to homeschool families.

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  15. Pat

    I have been looking for your alphabet activity which involves letters printed across the top and the st. matches with either the same letter or lowercase right under it in a grid form. It is a sm. looking card on card stock. I think this is your idea and was wanting to print it. Thanks for all the great activities you create for learning!
    Pat

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  16. Beverly

    I came to your site from a link and just want to say thank you. These are fantastic for my three and four year old preschoolers. I will be using them in small groups but I will laminate them first for durability. Thanks again. I will definitely be a regular visitor.

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  17. Heather

    For some reason, I cannot save any of your free materials. Am I doing something wrong? After I press the save button, chrome tells me that it has failed and that there is no file. I can print fine, but not save. Help!!! An aside, I also use and LOVE MS-publisher. thanks, HLC

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  18. Marisa

    Thankyou for making these great resources. I remember having the time to do things like this when I first started teaching but not any more. I’m glad there are those like you that can do this for me now.

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  20. Stephanie

    I am also a teacher-turned-SAHM. I’m in my 2nd year of homeschooling my now 5yo daughter and am expecting #4 in a couple of months. I just want to let you know I’ve found lots of fun and useful stuff on your site for my 5 & 3yos.I really appreciate your great ideas and FREE printable! Bless you for your willingness to share!

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hello, Stephanie! I’m so glad you’re finding things here to use with your children. Congratulations on your upcoming baby! I hope you have a smooth transition into being a mom of four. I found going from 2-3 was really tough, but 3-4 and 4-5 were very smooth transitions — well, as smooth as adding a baby to your family can be. 🙂

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  30. Jill

    I just wanted to say that I really appreciate all of the wonderful resources you create and share. They have been such a great resource for my classroom. Thanks for all of your hard work!

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  32. Celine

    I am just wondering what program or software you use in order to make your beautiful worksheets. I can’t seem to find any French worksheets anywhere and I want to make some for my girls, since we are French. Thanks.

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