3rd Grade Soft C Worksheets
30 printable 3rd Grade phonics worksheets on Soft C. Every sheet has an answer key — 30 in all. 5 activity types: Build, Clue Crossword, Fluency, Sort And Write. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: The Soft C; On the first day of our history study, Mrs; c or s. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 1 to 34 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 3.
What is in this set: Build (8), Sort And Write (8), Word Hunt (7), Clue Crossword (5) and Fluency (2).
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 3, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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Includes 5 activity types: Build, Clue Crossword, Fluency, Sort And Write, Word Hunt.
All 30 worksheets in this set
- Sort And Write 1: The Soft C Free PDF
- Fluency 1: On the first day of our history study, Mrs. Free PDF
- Word Hunt 1: The Soft C Free PDF
- Build 1: c or s
- Build 2: c or s
- Clue Crossword 1: The Soft C
- Word Hunt 2: The Soft C
- Build 3: c or s
- Sort And Write 2: The Soft C
- Sort And Write 3: The Soft C
- Build 4: c or s
- Build 5: c or s
- Word Hunt 3: The Soft C
- Clue Crossword 2: The Soft C
- Sort And Write 4: The Soft C
- Word Hunt 4: The Soft C
- Build 6: c or s
- Clue Crossword 3: The Soft C
- Word Hunt 5: The Soft C
- Sort And Write 5: The Soft C
- Sort And Write 6: The Soft C
- Clue Crossword 4: The Soft C
- Sort And Write 7: The Soft C
- Fluency 2
- Word Hunt 6: The Soft C
- Build 7: c or s
- Clue Crossword 5: The Soft C
- Build 8: c or s
- Sort And Write 8: The Soft C
- Word Hunt 7: The Soft C
Teaching Soft C
What it is
Soft c is the /s/ sound c makes before e, i, or y: cent, city, cycle. Before other letters it is hard /k/: cat, cup. In Grade 3 the words are longer, such as accident, practicing and voice, and the child also chooses c or s to finish a word and solves a clue crossword.
When a child is ready
Teach it after the child reads hard c words easily and knows the vowels.
If they struggle
Have the child look at the letter after the c before reading. A simple test, 'e, i, or y makes c say /s/,' handles almost every word. Sort words into hard and soft piles.
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