At a Glance
This Thanksgiving beginning sounds worksheet helps preschool and kindergarten children practice early phonics by matching themed pictures to their initial letter. Drawing the lines builds segmenting, letter recognition and phonemic awareness, with festive fall imagery making it a fun seasonal twist on early reading practice. A perfect no-prep activity for a Thanksgiving literacy center.
Need a fun way to sneak in a little phonics practice this Thanksgiving?
With this Thanksgiving Match the Beginning Sounds Worksheet, your children will look at each picture, segment the word to hear the first sound, and then draw a line to the correct letter it starts with.
It’s an easy, no-prep printable that helps your children build those phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and fine motor skills – all while keeping them engaged and enjoying a holiday-themed activity. Perfect for preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten.
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 joining and coloring of the sheets they can also develop:
- 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 segment the picture to find that beginning sound then draw a line to the corresponding letter. And when they’re done, they get to color them all in!
Enjoy!
