At a Glance
This Thanksgiving trace and match beginning sounds worksheet helps preschool and kindergarten children practice early phonics with a festive fall twist. They trace each letter, then draw a line to the themed picture that begins with that sound. The two-step format builds segmenting, letter recognition, letter formation and phonemic awareness. A perfect no-prep activity for your Thanksgiving literacy center.
Here’s another no-prep phonics worksheet that will keep your children learning this Thanksgiving season?
This Thanksgiving Beginning Sounds Trace and Match Worksheet is a fun way to practice those early phonics skills. Your children will have to trace the letter on the left-hand side, then draw a line to match it with the Thanksgiving picture that begins with that sound.
It’s simple, engaging, and a great way to build letter recognition, sound awareness, and fine motor skills.
What Skills Can Your Little Ones Learn And Develop?
This beginning sounds worksheet is designed to help your children practice and develop their early reading skills, such as:
- Segmenting – this is the ability to breakdown and hear the different sounds (phonemes) in a word
- Letter recognition – knowing what the written form (graphemes) of the sounds look like
Through the tracing and coloring of the sheets they can also develop:
- Letter formation – understanding what the letters look like and how to form them
- Hand and finger strength – the ability to be able to apply enough pressure to make marks on the page and hold the pencil firmly
- Hand dominance – developing and strengthening the skill of one of their hands
- Crossing the mid-line – this is the ability to cross the imaginary line running down the center of your body – it means they won’t have to switch hands if they want to color on the other side of the page
- Pencil control – holding the pencil correctly to allow for a full and fluid range of movement
Many of these are important skills taught during phonics lessons and help your children take some of their first steps on the path to becoming fluent readers.
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How To Prepare These Thanksgiving Tracing Worksheets
This one’s pretty straight forward!
First you’re going to want to download and print the Thanksgiving phonics worksheets by clicking on the download box at the bottom of the page.
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After that you’re all done!
That’s it, your little ones are now ready to practice their segmenting skills and start identifying those initial sounds.
They’ll need to trace the letter, then work out which of the pictures starts with that letter and draw a line to join them. And when they’re done, they get to color them all in!
Enjoy!
