Letters and Sounds Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: K.1.d, RF.K.3.a

Core Standard
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Whether to work with students on letters or sounds first is the age-old question for teachers. Letters often lead to sounds and the reverse can also be said to be true. Most teachers start by teaching what they are more comfortable with themselves. My best suggestion is to always have visuals available all around your classroom, the more posters, the better. These worksheets will help students better recognize letters and the sounds that they produce.

Letters and Sounds Worksheets:

Fill in the Letter Sounds - Look at the pictures and fill in the missing letter to complete each word.

My name begins like... - Draw a picture of something that begins with the same letter as your name.

Letters and Their Sounds - Say the name of each picture. Write the first letter on the line.

Beginning Sounds - Draw a line matching each picture with the letter that makes its beginning sound.

Beginning Letter Sounds - Circle the picture whose name begins with the letter at the beginning of the row.

In The Beginning - Choose the letter that matches the sound the name of each picture begins with.

What's to Eat? - Say the name of each picture. Which letter will complete the word? Draw a line connecting the letter to the name of each picture. Then write the letter in the blank.

Draw the Same As Sound - Say the name of each picture. Then, in the box next to it, draw something that has the same beginning sound.

Fill in the Missing Letter - Say the name of each picture aloud. What sound is missing? Fill in the missing letter.

Cut and Paste - Cut out the letters and glue them next to the picture that begins with that letter.

What Do You Like? - Use the stick figure below to draw a picture of yourself. Then, in the boxes below, draw pictures of two things that begin with the same sound as your first name.

Picture Words - Say the name of the picture. Write the letter that makes the beginning sound to complete the word.

The Sounds of Letters - Say the name of each picture. Write the letter whose sound you hear at the beginning of the word.

It Begins! - Circle the correct beginning sound for each picture.

Change the Letter, Change the Sound - Look at the pictures and fill in the missing letter to complete each word.

More Letter Sounds Worksheet Topics:

Blending Sounds to Make Words - This is where phonics skills come in really handy.

Long and Short Sound Spelling - You may come across some new vocabulary terms in here.

Primary Consonant Sounds - This focuses on the front leading consonant for most of the chime that comes out.

Short Vowel Sounds - There are seven of these, but only five a common.

Sounds of Consonant Digraphs - We look at how letters combinations that lack vowels roll off the tongue.

Writing Short Vowel Sounds - We explore how to get these down on paper.

How to Learn Your Letters and Sounds


Here are some ways to learn your letters and sounds.


Use Repetition


Repetitions is a great way when you want to learn the letters and sound. This is because repetitions allow the letters and sound to fit in your memory. It will help you easily recognize those letters and sounds when you see them in a word. Get yourself an alphabet book and read it again and again. Also, try to make the sounds along so that you can get rid of any confusions.


Have Multiple references


It is important to keep references along with you if you want to learn the letters and their sounds. This is because oftentimes, we tend to forget about sounds that certain letters make. We may end up learning the wrong sound and letter if we do not have any reference book to look up to. Try to have multiple references with you. You can also paste some alphabet charts in your room.


Use Your Fine Motor Skills


Fine motor skills can be really helpful in learning if they are used correctly. It is said and believed that everything that you write, you will remember easily. You can write the letters down as many times as you can with the help of your fine motor skills. This will make sure that you remember the pattern by heart.


Learn With Art


You can learn your alphabets and sounds with the help of art. Art will make everything ten times more interesting. You can get some salt and chopsticks on a tray and draw the letters with the chopsticks on the sand.


Use Letter Sound Apps


There are many letter-sound apps that you can use to perfect your letters and sounds. Use the letter sound app to make sure that you are learning everything correctly.


Learning the letters and the alphabet is essential to becoming a successful reader. In order to read words, students need to be able to understand the sounds that each letter makes. When we piece these sounds together, we get words. When we piece these words together, we get sentences. When we put those sentences together, we get paragraphs. It is easy to see the building trajectory of literacy.


Most curriculums start by having students first being able to recognize the letters and the names associated with them. This is important because the letter names give rise to the sound that is produced from each of them. I would put your focus on students attributing a picture to each letter; this greatly helps them establish a mental rolodex of letters. There are a series of letters that often confuse students, especially in the lower case form. The lower case "p" is just a reorientated lower case "b" or vice versa. The lower case letter "d" and "q" also have the same problem. This is why it essential to have those letters associated with visual cues. We would highly recommend you present these letters in lower case form, since that is where most of the confusion strikes students.