Soft C Worksheets

Free printable soft c phonics worksheets. Five practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, rapid naming chart, and word search.

Grade: 1st Phase 3: Long Vowels & Silent E Pattern: Soft C (c says /s/ before e, i, y): cent, city, ice

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1 Decodable Reading Passage

A short, decodable story embedding soft c words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.

Scott and the Ice Mice

Skill: Soft C • Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have

Illustrated mini-book

Scott had a job at the city ice rink. Each day he made the ice flat and slick. But every day, he found little lines traced all over the ice.

"Who made these?" Scott asked. He could not think who it was. The gate was locked, and no one came in after six.

So Scott made a plan. When the sun went down, he hid by the fence with his pencil and pad. It was cold. His nose turned red. He sat still for a long time.

Then he heard it. Click-click! Click-click! Jim came out on the ice with nine other mice, and every one had on little skates. Jim raced around the rink twice. The mice made a line and danced. One of them spun so fast that he fell flat on his face. He got up with a grin.

Scott laughed. Jim froze.

"Oh no," said Jim. "Are you mad about the lines?"

"Not a bit," said Scott. "This is the best show in the city! I will save you a place on the ice."

Then he wrote it all down on his pad.

Circle or highlight all the words where C says /s/ (like cent and ice). How many did you find?

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2 Word Sort

Cut out the word cards and sort them into the correct columns: Soft C at the Start vs Soft C at the End or Inside.

Soft C at the Start

Soft C at the End or Inside

cent

cell

city

cinch

ice

mice

rice

nice

dice

face

race

lace

place

space

trace

price

slice

twice

fence

dance

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3 Phrasing Practice Cards

Practice reading these phrases for fluency. Cut out the cards and read them quickly and smoothly.

a nice place

mice in the rice

a race in the city

ice on the fence

a slice for a cent

dance in a space

lace on her face

twice the price

trace the dice

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4 RAN Chart (Rapid Naming)

Read each word in the grid as quickly as you can. Time yourself and try to beat your best time!

Decodable RAN Chart — Soft C

dance

place

ice

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cinch

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cinch

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place

dance

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cinch

dance

Target words: cent, cinch, ice, place, dance

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5 Word Search

Find and circle the soft c words hidden in the grid. Words go across, down, and diagonally — a fun way to reinforce soft c word recognition.

Soft C Word Search

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Free Printable Soft C Worksheets

These free soft c worksheets provide structured phonics practice for Soft C (c says /s/ before e, i, y): cent, city, ice. Activities include a decodable passage embedding target words in a fun story, a word sort that separates soft c at the start of a word from soft c at the end or inside, phrasing practice cards for fluency building, and a rapid naming (RAN) chart for automaticity. Each worksheet prints cleanly on standard US Letter paper.

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