Kindergarten Screening Tools - Initial Sounds

Area Tested: Initial Sounds

Initial sound association - a word is said by the person assessing your child and he/she is to give the initial sound or letter that the word begins with; example - baby "buh" or b.

Activities to strengthen initial sound association:

1. Practice showing pictures and asking "What letter or sound does this begin with?"

2. Make a letter collage featuring the printed letter in the center of the page surrounded by magazine cut outs of other things that have that letter/sound

3. Alphabet "I Spy"... I spy something that begins with a letter B "buh"

4. Clap the syllables to familiar objects

5. Think of a word for each letter of the alphabet, giving cues as needed