Printable Letter Sounds Worksheets
Printable letter 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, sorting activities, and tracing sheets.
Targeted Practice by Skill
About Letter Sounds
What this skill is
Letter sounds connects uppercase and lowercase letters to their primary consonant and short vowel phoneme sounds, cementing grapheme-phoneme correspondence.
When children learn it
Letter-sound correspondence is taught in prekindergarten and kindergarten, aligned to K.RF.3.A.
Teaching Tips
- Produce short, crisp consonant sounds without adding /uh/ endings.
- Match alphabet tactile cards to picture cards starting with that sound.
Common Mistakes
- Adding trailing schwa sounds to consonants (/buh/ instead of clean /b/).
- Confusing letter names with letter sounds.