Beginning Consonant Sounds
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Teach beginning consonant sounds from B to Z. Each page of flashcards includes one letter card and 7 corresponding picture cards.
Description
Here are 21 sets of picture cards for teaching beginning consonant sounds.
For the complete alphabet, you’ll also need the Beginning Vowel Sounds Set .
The pictures in these sets come from from a few different royalty-free and licensed sources, so the image styles vary quite a bit. Many –maybe half?– of the images are recycled from other flashcard sets on this site and combined here for a new purpose.
Each flashcard set contains 1 lowercase letter and 8 pictures of words that begin with that letter. Well, three letters (q, x and z) have fewer than 8 words 🙁 All of the consonants have their own card set which prints on a single page. The PDFs are bundled so you don’t have to download 21 separate files to get all the letters.
Right now, only small size flashcard sets are available. You can download them with or without word labels under the pictures.
Vocabulary notes:
- Most of the pictures are nouns, with a few exceptions such as hug, jump, sleep, stop, quiet, up and under.
- An X exception: the letter x words are not beginning sounds, they are final sounds, as in box and six,
- The C and G sets include hard c and hard g sounds only– no soft c or g words means no celery or giraffes, sorry.
Separate vocabulary lists for words beginning with: b, c, d, f and g.
Separate vocabulary lists for words beginning with: h, j, k, l and m.
Separate vocabulary lists for words beginning with: n, p, q, r and s.
Separate vocabulary lists for words beginning with: t, v, w, y, z, and ending with x.
1 letter and 8 picture cards per page.
Words
B - baby, bananas, bell, bird, blue, book, boots, bread, C - card, cat, coat, cold, cookie, corn, cow, cry, D - desk, dinosaur, doctor, dog, doll, dress, drum, F - family, finger, fish, fly, foot, four, fox, frog, G - game, ghost, gift, glasses, glue, grapes, green, guitar
1 letter and 8 picture cards per page.
Words
H - hair, hand, hat, heart, honey, horse, hot, hug, J - jam, jeans, jeep, jellyfish, jet, jug, juice, jump , K - kangaroo, kettle, key, kick, king, kite, kiwi, koala, L - ladder, lamp, laugh, leaf, leg, lemon, lion, lock, M - marker, milk, mittens, monkey, moon, mother, mouse, mouth
1 letter and 8 picture cards per page (except q).
Words
N - narwhal, neck, nest, net, nine, noodles, nose, notebook, P - pajamas, panda, pen, penguin, pillow, pink, pizza, purple, Q - quail, quarter, queen, question, quiet, quilt, R - rabbit, rainbow, rat, red, rice, robot, rope, run, S - sandwich, skirt, sleep, snowman, sock, spider, stop, sun
1 letter and 8 picture cards per page (except x and z).
Words
T - table, tiger, tissue, toe, toilet, toys, tree, turtle, V - van, vase, vegetables, vest, vet, video, violin, volcano, W - walk, watch, water, watermelon, whale, white, wind, window, X - ax, box, flex, fox, ox, six, Y - yarn, yawn, yell, yellow, yoga, yogurt, yolk, yoyo, Z - zebra, zero, zigzag, zipper, zoo
9 cards per page, includes picture cards with words below.
Words
B - baby, bananas, bell, bird, blue, book, boots, bread, C - card, cat, coat, cold, cookie, corn, cow, cry, D - desk, dinosaur, doctor, dog, doll, dress, drum, F - family, finger, fish, fly, foot, four, fox, frog, G - game, ghost, gift, glasses, glue, grapes, green, guitar
9 cards per page, includes picture cards with words below.
Words
H - hair, hand, hat, heart, honey, horse, hot, hug, J - jam, jeans, jeep, jellyfish, jet, jug, juice, jump , K - kangaroo, kettle, key, kick, king, kite, kiwi, koala, L - ladder, lamp, laugh, leaf, leg, lemon, lion, lock, M - marker, milk, mittens, monkey, moon, mother, mouse, mouth
9 cards per page, includes picture cards with words below.
Words
N - narwhal, neck, nest, net, nine, noodles, nose, notebook, P - pajamas, panda, pen, penguin, pillow, pink, pizza, purple, Q - quail, quarter, queen, question, quiet, quilt, R - rabbit, rainbow, rat, red, rice, robot, rope, run, S - sandwich, skirt, sleep, snowman, sock, spider, stop, sun
9 cards per page, includes picture cards with words below.
Words
T - table, tiger, tissue, toe, toilet, toys, tree, turtle, V - van, vase, vegetables, vest, vet, video, violin, volcano, W - walk, watch, water, watermelon, whale, white, wind, window, X - ax, box, flex, fox, ox, six, Y - yarn, yawn, yell, yellow, yoga, yogurt, yolk, yoyo, Z - zebra, zero, zigzag, zipper, zoo
christine –
great
nimanthika –
very help full for me
Fadzai Z –
thankyou
Jerrid Michels –
Missing A
Karen –
All the vowels are together in this set:
https://www.eslflashcards.com/set/beginning-sounds-vowels/
It includes words beginning with both long and short vowel sounds.
christina –
nice work
Nargis –
I found these very helpful for my beginner students.
Jeng –
This is nice
Tamara –
It`s wonderful
Lidia –
Awesome
Tracey –
Wonderful for teaching young English learners!
Tracey –
Awesome!
Danette –
Thank you so much for providing these!! They are perfect for our beginning readers and ELL students.
TThanhh –
That’s useful
Acelia –
Great for teaching kids!
Samia Sayadi –
wonderful resource.Thank you!
kathy javier –
awesome!
Michelle H. –
Consonants H-M not downloading
Karen –
I just tested and was able to download the files.
Could you tell me what error message you’re getting (if any), or any more info about what happens when you try to download so I can troubleshoot? Thanks for reporting a problem!
J. Palacios –
Very useful.
Olisa Franklyn –
Nice one
amir –
wonderfull
Holly –
Great
sober –
wonderful!
Denisse Dinar –
super very nice thank you
Maria –
Fantastic!
Renan –
Excellent!!
Heba –
thank you so much
Joann Hansen –
Thank you. I will use in small groups
Heather –
The variety of words looks great for slightly older learners
Ozoda –
Awesome
Zandile –
I would appreciate the A sound as well but overall these cards are fantastic thank you.
Karen –
Glad you like them!
You can find words beginning with short and long A sounds in this other set:
https://www.eslflashcards.com/set/beginning-sounds-vowels/
Toni –
Love these, thanks
Hanan Ahmed Al-ghouj –
Thank you so much
Feruza –
Thank you
Elizabeth –
Great!
MARIELA –
EXCELLENT
Asila –
Great
Yulissa –
Pretty great cards!
Celine Yoo –
Pretty good.
awesome –
awesome
sandra cantu –
excelent thanks for sharing
Karen –
You’re welcome 🙂
vaike –
good
j –
great, thanks
norhanipha –
very helpful, thank you so much.
Jeannette –
Espero poder descargarlas
Karen –
Please see: https://www.eslflashcards.com/about-the-flashcards/
Joy Zao –
It’s really helpful! Thanks!
Wajid Kanwar Abdul –
good
Aurene –
Good
Montse –
Nice!
Mihwa –
Good
Vivian –
Nice
Zeinab Hassan –
Amazing
Svitlana –
Bright & marvelous
Oluwatoyin –
Attractive and relatable pics for kids to easily identify. I love it
Danyelle –
This is a great free tool that helps my daughter with sounding out her letters as well as visually recognizing each letter.