Printable Beginning and Ending Sounds Worksheets
Printable beginning and ending sounds worksheets for kindergarten and 1st grade, with an answer key on every sheet. The sets below cover 3 different skills, so you can start where your child actually is. Available as fill in the blank and sorting activities.
Targeted Practice by Skill
About Beginning and Ending Sounds
What this skill is
Beginning and ending sounds practices isolating and identifying starting and trailing phoneme sounds in spoken words (cat starts with /k/ and ends with /t/).
When children learn it
Phoneme isolation is taught in prekindergarten and kindergarten, aligned to K.RF.2.D.
Teaching Tips
- Exaggerate beginning and ending sounds when pronouncing picture words.
- Tap head for beginning sound and toes for ending sound.
Common Mistakes
- Stating letter names instead of phoneme sounds.
- Confusing ending consonant sounds with vowel sounds.