Beginning Sounds

Reading starts with the ears: before a child can read cat they have to hear that it starts with k. These pages train exactly that. For every letter from A to Z, three pictures and one question - which one starts with this sound? Then four cut-and-sort pages that put two sounds side by side (b or s, c or m), two odd-one-out pages, two pages of drawing a line from the letter to its picture, and twenty-five words to trace while saying the first sound once more. The page for the grown-up explains the one rule that matters: say the sound, not the letter name. Then play I hear with my little ear - like I spy, with sounds. Draw a bell and a drum in four easy steps, join the dots to find a bell, finish the other half of a bell, spot the difference and find the way through three mazes.

What's inside:

- All 26 letters: which picture starts with this sound?

- 4 cut-and-sort pages that compare two sounds

- Odd one out and match-the-letter pages

- 25 words to trace, all dashed, on real guidelines

- I hear with my little ear - a sound game · draw a bell and a drum · 3 mazes

- US Letter + A4 versions · print as often as you like

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