Color the Pictures That Start With T

A listening page for the letter T. Capital and lowercase T sit large at the top, and ten pictures fill the grid below. Six of them start with the crisp T sound heard in tiger; four do not. The child colors only the T pictures.

The pictures have no words under them, so the child has to listen to the first sound of each spoken name rather than match letter shapes. Hearing that first sound is an early step toward linking letters to reading.

Say each name slowly and tap out the first sound — "t-t-tiger" — then ask whether it starts like T. The pictures show a tiger, a cat, a tomato, a tree, a sun, a turtle, a fish, a train, a key and a tractor.