At a Glance
This print-and-go beginning sounds worksheet is a cozy, winter-themed way for preschool, kindergarten and other young learners to practice foundational phonics. Children look at the seasonal pictures and color in the correct initial letter, strengthening their letter-sound correspondence and fine motor skills as they work. It is a fantastic, low-prep literacy activity perfect for a winter unit or a quiet morning tub option.
Looking for a lovely little literacy activity this winter? These Winter Beginning Sounds Coloring Worksheets are a great way to help your little learners practise phonemic awareness!
On each line, they’ll find three Winter-themed pictures and they’ll need to use their segmenting skills to figure out which one begins with the given letter. Once they’ve found it, they’ll need to color it in.
A simple and engaging way to reinforce those sound-letter links, a bit vocabulary, and some pencil control. Plus, who doesn’t love a bit of winter-themed coloring fun?
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 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 Winter Themed Beginning Sounds Worksheets
This one’s pretty straight forward!
First you’re going to want to download and print the winter phonics worksheet 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. Once they’ve figured it out, they’ll need to color in the correct picture.
Enjoy!
