This medium worksheet steps up to nine fill-in-the-blank questions covering beginning sounds in 'fish' and 'dog', the hard /k/ sound in 'cat', the ending letters of 'bell' and 'run', and short vowels in 'pin' and 'cup'. Children also identify the letters that make the /w/ and /z/ sounds before tackling a four-pair matching grid that pairs the consonants B, T, G, and S with their phonemes /b/, /t/, /g/, and /s/.

The matching task sharpens letter-sound recall under a small time pressure, which is exactly the automaticity first graders need for fluent decoding.