Hearing the first sound in a word is a huge reading milestone. These beginning sounds activities help preschool and kindergarten kids listen closely, say picture names aloud and match them to letters. Choose from picture sorts, matching mats, puzzles, play dough mats, Beginning Sounds BINGO, a Beginning Sounds I Spy and picture matching games with uppercase and lowercase letters. The beginning sounds clip cards come in 3 levels.
Beginning sounds (also called initial sounds) are part of phonemic awareness, the ability to hear and play with sounds in spoken words. Simplify with a few letters at a time or add a challenge with the full alphabet. These work well in speech therapy sessions too.
