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Features

  • Find and circle the pictures that start with a letter
  • Count them and write how many
  • Two letters on a page later, with a count for each
  • Letters s, m, b, t, p, d, f, h, r, l, w and c
  • Pictures with one name a child would say, every one named on the answer keys
  • Every page in color and in black and white
  • Answer keys included

Skills Covered

  • Hear the first sound of a word
  • Match a sound to its letter
  • Count the pictures found
  • Tell one first sound from another
  • Look carefully across a busy picture
  • Write a number to 7

How to Use This Pack

Eight I Spy scenes that send children hunting for first sounds. On the first four, each scene has one letter: children say each picture's name, circle every picture that starts with the letter and write how many they found. The last four have two letters, and children count the pictures for each. The pictures repeat, so a scene might hold three suns and three socks for s. No words are printed, so children listen for the sound; the answer keys ring every picture, mark its letter and name them all.

In the Classroom

Play I Spy aloud first: I spy something that starts with sss. Then hand out the page for a letter you are working on. On the two letter pages, children can circle one letter's pictures and put a box round the other's.

At Home

Take turns saying a picture's name and its first sound. Then play I Spy around the house with the same letter.

Tips for Success

  • Say each picture's name out loud
  • Make the first sound long: sssun
  • Circle a picture as soon as you find it
  • Count your circles to write how many
  • Check the answer key for each picture's name

I Spy Beginning Sounds

Pre-K – K

Busy I Spy scenes full of pictures, where children hunt for the ones that start with a letter's sound. They say each picture's name, circle the ones that start with the letter and count how many they found.

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What’s Included

  • 4 one letter I Spy scenes
  • 4 two letter I Spy scenes
  • Every scene in color and in black and white
  • 8 answer key pages
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