At a Glance
This Thanksgiving trace the beginning sounds worksheet helps preschool and kindergarten children practice early phonics with a festive fall twist. They listen for the initial sound of each themed picture, then trace the matching letter. The format builds segmenting, letter recognition, letter formation and phonemic awareness, making it a perfect no-prep fit for a Thanksgiving literacy center.
Want a Thanksgiving-themed way to get your children practicing their letters this Turkey Day?
Then this Thanksgiving Trace the Beginning Sound Worksheet is a fun and simple way to build phonics skills. Your children will trace the first letter of each Thanksgiving-themed picture and then color the picture in.
It’s no-prep, engaging, and a great way to help your children strengthen their letter recognition and formation skills, as well as their phonics knowledge.
If they’re up for a little more of a challenge, you can find a writing version here.
What Skills Can Your Little Ones Learn And Develop?
These beginning sounds worksheets are 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.
Simply encourage them to segment (breakdown the word into its phonemes – it might help to use fingers for each sound they can hear) and listen carefully for that first sound. Then they need to trace the letter for each picture. When they’re done, they get to color them all in!
Enjoy!
