Sound Detective Worksheet for Ages 4–5
Detective ear training on paper: a target sound, three pictures — circle every one that starts with it.
The full sheet, exactly as it prints.
This page is the worksheet’s home: see the whole sheet, download it or print it, and pass it on. Solving on screen happens in the class’s own activities on the Learning Path — this page is for the table, the kitchen and the fridge door.

What your child practices.
Beginning-sound isolation is THE first-grade readiness skill, and this sheet drills it with a twist: two of three pictures share the target sound, so your child must check every picture, not just find one.
- Isolating a beginning sound
- Checking all choices before deciding
- Pure-sound listening (not letter names)
- Saying “yes it starts with s / no it starts with h”
On the sheet: Circle every picture that starts with the bubble sound.
The class behind it.
This worksheet belongs to Phonics & Beginning Sounds (Class 28) on the Age 4 learning path, and the whole phonics collection lives at /worksheets/phonics/. One finished sheet is a full session — download it, print it, and let the fridge door be the gallery.
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