At a Glance
This Valentine's Day 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 sweet seasonal imagery making it a fun introduction to reading practice. A perfect no-prep activity for a Valentine's Day literacy center.
This Valentine’s Day Beginning Sounds Matching Worksheet is a playful way for children to practice early phonics skills. Your children will look at the Valentine’s Day-themed pictures on the left, segment the word to figure out the first sound, then draw a line to match it with the correct letter on the right.
This simple Valentine’s Day phonics worksheet can help to develop and practice those early reading skills like segmenting, letter recognition, and phonemic awareness. Plus, it’s a fun way to sneak in some fine motor practice too!
And once they’ve matched them all? Time to grab those crayons and get coloring!
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 tracing and matching the letters with the pictures, and coloring them in, they can also develop:
- Letter formation – understanding what the letters look like and how to write 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 Valentine’s Day Letter Matching Worksheets
This one’s pretty straight forward!
First you’re going to want to download and print the Valentine’s Day 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 draw a line from the picture to the correct letter. When they’re done, they get to color in all those cute pictures!
Enjoy!
