Preschool Letter Sounds F to J worksheets

About this worksheet

F through J hold the pair of sounds preschoolers mix up most often. G and J have letter names that rhyme, so a child who is thinking about names rather than sounds will reach for the wrong one, and the only reliable cure is to hear /g/ and /j/ side by side many times. This page puts them on the same sheet on purpose, and on the hardest level one wrong picture is the G or J that sounds nearest. Your child looks at one letter and points to the picture whose spoken name matches.

Because the choices are drawings rather than words, nothing on the page has to be decoded, and a three-year-old can finish the sheet with no help beyond an adult naming the pictures once. Say consonants cleanly when you model them: /f/ rather than "fuh". The extra vowel is what later turns a two-sound blend into three, and it is much easier to leave out now than to remove later.

What your child will learn

• Match F, G, H, I, and J to pictures that begin with their sounds
• Tell the sounds of G and J apart when the letter names sound alike
• Say a consonant sound without adding an extra vowel to it
• Find a picture by its first sound when a near-sounding picture is also offered

Head Start ELOF standard: P-LIT 3, RF.K.3.A