The harder half of hearing a word, because the end of a word is where attention drops. Only words that end in a single plain consonant are used — no silent e, no final blends — so a child is never asked to split a sound they have not been taught.
Kindergarten · medium
Say the picture out loud. Tick the letter it ends with.
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Difficulty is a real change to the numbers or the layout, not a label.
Two letters to choose between.
Three letters.
Four letters, including one that is easy to confuse with the answer.
Tap a grade you can use for a page of everything a child that age can practise here.
Children hear the front of a word first and most easily. The end takes more attention, because the child has to hold the whole word in mind and listen past it. That is why beginning sounds are a first-term skill and ending sounds arrive a few months later.
If a child is confident with beginning sounds and struggling here, that is the expected order rather than a problem. Middles are harder still.
A child who can hear the beginning and the end of a word can already write a recognisable attempt at it — kt for cat is a real milestone, not a mistake. The vowel in the middle comes last.
That is the practical reason to spend time here rather than moving straight on to reading whole words: this is the skill that turns into invented spelling, and invented spelling is how writing starts.
Only words whose last letter is also their last sound can be used. That rules out silent e, vowel teams and final blends, which is most of the picture vocabulary.
Beginning sounds. The start of a word is much easier to hear, and ending sounds make more sense once that is secure.
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