Beginning sounds: Download free worksheets to trace, colour and learn

Beginning sounds are the first thing you hear as you start to pronounce a word. The words ‘bed’ and ‘dog’ have the beginning sounds /b/ and /d/.

These free worksheets with beginning sounds will help you to explore all the different beginning sounds made with the 26 letters of the alphabet. These include short and long vowels, hard and soft consonants, and unusual beginning sounds of letters.

Download free beginning sounds worksheets

Click the links to download free worksheets to trace, colour and have fun with beginning sounds.

Beginning sound a – act, ape, any, awe

Beginning sound b – bat

Beginning sound c – cat, city

Beginning sound d – dog

Beginning sound e – egg, eat

Beginning sound f – fat

Beginning sound g – gum, gem

Beginning sound h – hat

Beginning sound i – ink, ice

Beginning sound j – jam

Beginning sound k – key

Beginning sound l – leg

Beginning sound m – man

Beginning sound n – net

Beginning sound o – odd, old

Beginning sound p – pig

Beginning sound q – quit

Beginning sound r – rat

Beginning sound s – sun

Beginning sound t – top

Beginning sound u – up, use

Beginning sound v – van

Beginning sound w – wet

Beginning sound x – x-ray, xylophone

Beginning sound y – yes

Beginning sound z – zoo

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Beginning sound a: Download free worksheets, trace, colour 4 sounds of a

Beginning sound b: Download free worksheet to trace, colour

Beginning sound c: Download free worksheets, trace, colour hard and soft c

Beginning sound d: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound e: Download free worksheets, trace, colour short and long e

Beginning sound f: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound g: Download free worksheets, trace, colour hard and soft g

Beginning sound h: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound i: Download free worksheets, trace, colour short and long i

Beginning sound j: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound k: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound l: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound m: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound n: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound o: Download free worksheets, trace, colour long and short o

Beginning sound p: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound q: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound r: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound s: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound t: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound u: Download free worksheets, trace, colour short and long u

Beginning sound v: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound w: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound x: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound y: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

Beginning sound z: Download free worksheet, trace, colour

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