Beginning Sounds From A to Z

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What Are Beginning Sounds?

Beginning sounds are the very first sounds you hear when you say a word out loud.

These sounds help you figure out which letter the word starts with.

Try this: Say the word duck slowly — d-d-duck.

• What sound comes first?

That’s right — /d/!

Now try this one: Goat — say it slowly — g-g-goat.

The beginning sound is /g/!

When you say a word and stretch out the beginning, your ears start to match sounds with letters.

That’s called phonemic awareness, and it’s a superpower for reading!

Read: Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack

Now, it’s time for a story that travels through the whole alphabet—from A to Z!

As you listen to the read-aloud of Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack by Doreen Cronin, try this challenge.

Listen for the beginning sound!

Each page of the story matches a letter with a sound and a word.

Here are some examples.

D — Duck dashing → Listen for the /d/ sound.

F — Flippety-flip → That’s the /f/ sound.

P — Pig peeping → Hear the /p/?

Say the beginning sound before the word if you can!

You can even stretch the sound out loud.

“F-f-flippety-flip!”

“S-s-sheep sleeping!”

By the end of the story, you’ll have traveled from A to Z with a whole team of animals and sounds.

Listening to how each word starts will help build your sound memory—and get you ready to try some beginning sound fun of your own!

• Did you hear all the beginning sounds?

Keep going in the Got It? section and practice what you learned next!