Beginning Sounds – Consonants

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Here are 21 sets of picture cards for teaching beginning consonant sounds.

For the complete alphabet, you’ll also need the Beginning Sounds – Vowels 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.
Preview of Checklist, B to G

Checklist, B to G

5 Pages

Separate vocabulary lists for words beginning with: b, c, d, f and g.

Preview of Checklist, H to M

Checklist, H to M

5 Pages

Separate vocabulary lists for words beginning with: h, j, k, l and m.

Preview of Checklist, N to S

Checklist, N to S

5 Pages

Separate vocabulary lists for words beginning with: n, p, q, r and s.

Preview of Checklist, T to Z

Checklist, T to Z

6 Pages

Separate vocabulary lists for words beginning with: t, v, w, y, z, and ending with x.

Preview of Images only, B to G

Images only, B to G

5 Pages

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

Preview of Images only, H to M

Images only, H to M

5 Pages

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

Preview of Images only, N to S

Images only, N to S

5 Pages

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

Preview of Images only, T to Z

Images only, T to Z

6 Pages

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

Preview of Images with labels, B to G

Images with labels, B to G

5 Pages

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

Preview of Images with labels, H to M

Images with labels, H to M

5 Pages

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

Preview of Images with labels, N to S

Images with labels, N to S

5 Pages

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

Preview of Images with labels, T to Z

Images with labels, T to Z

6 Pages

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

44 comments for Beginning Sounds – Consonants

  1. 5 out of 5

    christine

    great

  2. 5 out of 5

    nimanthika

    very help full for me

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    Fadzai Z

    thankyou

  4. 2 out of 5

    Jerrid Michels

    Missing A

  5. 5 out of 5

    christina

    nice work

  6. 5 out of 5

    Nargis

    I found these very helpful for my beginner students.

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    Jeng

    This is nice

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    Tamara

    It`s wonderful

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    Lidia

    Awesome

  10. 5 out of 5

    Tracey

    Wonderful for teaching young English learners!

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    Tracey

    Awesome!

  12. 5 out of 5

    Danette

    Thank you so much for providing these!! They are perfect for our beginning readers and ELL students.

  13. 5 out of 5

    TThanhh

    That’s useful

  14. 5 out of 5

    Acelia

    Great for teaching kids!

  15. 5 out of 5

    Samia Sayadi

    wonderful resource.Thank you!

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    kathy javier

    awesome!

  17. 4 out of 5

    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!

  18. 5 out of 5

    J. Palacios

    Very useful.

  19. 5 out of 5

    Olisa Franklyn

    Nice one

  20. 3 out of 5

    amir

    wonderfull

  21. 5 out of 5

    Holly

    Great

  22. 5 out of 5

    sober

    wonderful!

  23. 5 out of 5

    Denisse Dinar

    super very nice thank you

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    Maria

    Fantastic!

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    Renan

    Excellent!!

  26. 5 out of 5

    Heba

    thank you so much

  27. 5 out of 5

    Joann Hansen

    Thank you. I will use in small groups

  28. 4 out of 5

    Heather

    The variety of words looks great for slightly older learners

  29. 5 out of 5

    Ozoda

    Awesome

  30. 5 out of 5

    madina

    cool

  31. 5 out of 5

    Zandile

    I would appreciate the A sound as well but overall these cards are fantastic thank you.

  32. 4 out of 5

    Toni

    Love these, thanks

  33. 5 out of 5

    Hanan Ahmed Al-ghouj

    Thank you so much

  34. 5 out of 5

    Feruza

    Thank you

  35. 5 out of 5

    Elizabeth

    Great!

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    MARIELA

    EXCELLENT

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    Anna

    Thank you!)) I`m realy ap.

  38. 5 out of 5

    Asila

    Great

  39. 4 out of 5

    Yulissa

    Pretty great cards!

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    Celine Yoo

    Pretty good.

  41. 5 out of 5

    awesome

    awesome

  42. 5 out of 5

    sandra cantu

    excelent thanks for sharing

    • Karen

      You’re welcome 🙂

  43. 3 out of 5

    vaike

    good

  44. 5 out of 5

    j

    great, thanks

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