Soft C and Soft G Worksheets

About this resource

Soft c and soft g are the pattern where a c or a g changes its sound before e, i or y — city (not

"kity"), gem (not "gem" with a hard g). This is a full worksheet kit: five different things to do with

the same 19 words, and the record-keeping around them. Every student answer is written, circled or

checked in pencil, so no student page needs scissors or glue.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (38 pages)

• 20 student pages in 5 formats — four sets (A-D, of 4 or 5 words) in each format, covering all 19

words every time: 95 exercises (19 words x 5 formats)

• 1 Soft C/Soft G Helper page: the rule with four pictures (city, gem, circle, germ) and the three-step "look at the

next letter" trick

• 19 pictured words: soft c (11) city, circle, circus, celery, pencil, dance, face, ice, mice, rice,

fence; soft g (8) gem, giant, giraffe, cage, page, orange, bridge, germ

• 2 answer keys, generated from the same data as the pages
• 1 tracker (all 19 words, five formats), 1 class progress grid
• 1 team note page and 1 home page (four draw-it-and-write-it boxes)
• 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (16 starters), 1 binder cover, and 6 divider

tabs with a spine label to cut out

• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page, a contents page that gives every page number, and a picture

key

The Five Formats, Easiest To Hardest

1. Write the Missing Letter (starting) — the word is printed and the soft c or g is the only blank.

That blank is NOT always the first letter — pencil, dance, cage and seven other words have it

mid-word or at the end, which is exactly what makes them common soft-c/g teaching words.

2. Circle c or g (starting) — the same word stub, two round buttons (c and g); circle the one that

makes the word. The left/right order of the two buttons is shuffled per item and balanced across

each set, so a child cannot get the page right by always circling the same side.

3. Sort: Soft C or Soft G (building) — the whole word is printed; check the Soft C or Soft G box.

4. Circle the Word (building) — a picture and three real words from this pack's own bank (the target

plus two others, picked by spelling closeness); circle the picture's word.

5. Write the Word (ready for more) — picture only, empty boxes, and a word bank to check with.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, large rounded letters, big boxes with room

to write, and dots (not words) to show which level a page is. Nothing on a student page is written for

an adult.

Pictures That Name Their Word

Every word has a picture checked to be the natural name for that word. 14 come from Google Noto Emoji,

each checked against Microsoft Fluent Emoji High Contrast; 5 (celery, face, fence, giant, cage) are

drawn by us because neither set has a picture that reads as that word. If a child still gives a

different name for a picture, say the word yourself and move on — the page always wants the printed

word, the same allowance this store's other picture-led phonics packs use.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page are type-in

fields in any PDF reader. The letters and checks a student makes are pencil work. This is a fillable

PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten, first and second grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher

working with an older student who still needs the soft-c/soft-g pattern. The home page sends the same

job to a family; the team note hands off what changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Soft-c/soft-g practice with the record-keeping around it. It is not a probe, a goal bank or a score

sheet, not a reading assessment, and not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress.