1 Decodable Reading Passage
A short, decodable story embedding soft g words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.
Beth had two pet mice in a cage. She wanted to show them to the kids at the gym. But the hinge on the cage was bent, and the door would not shut all the way.
Beth set the cage down by the stage. The mice gave the door a push and ran! They hid under the edge of the stage.
"Mice!" yelled Jan. She lunged at them. The mice ran far back into the dim space.
"Hush, Jan," said Beth. "This gym is huge and strange to them, and you look like a giant. We must be gentle."
"What can we do?" Jan whispered.
Beth had a plan. She got a bag of rice from her pack. She made a thin line of rice from the edge of the stage to the cage. Then she and Jan sat still.
Soon a pink nose poked out, and then one more. The mice ate the rice, bit by bit, all the way into the cage. Beth shut the door and fixed the hinge with a clip.
"That was like magic," said Jan.
"No," said Beth with a grin. "Just rice."
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2 Soft G Words
The words this story set practices, in the two groups used by the word sort.
Soft G at the Start (4)
gem, gel, germ, giant
Soft G at the End or Inside (16)
age, cage, page, stage, rage, wage, sage, huge, hinge, fringe, plunge, lunge, range, change, strange, magic
- Phrases to read
- a gem in a cage · a huge stage · the giant on the page · a strange change · plunge and lunge · a magic gem · the hinge on the cage · a fringe on the stage · the age of the sage
- RAN chart words
- gem, giant, age, hinge, magic
- Sight words
- the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have
3 Soft C and G Picture Worksheets
Soft c and soft g words to read, match and write, with pictures. Each PDF has its answer key on page 2.
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4 Story Worksheets
4 ready-to-print PDFs for this story's soft g words. Each one opens as its own file.
Word Sort
Cut-apart word cards to sort: Soft G at the Start or Soft G at the End or Inside. Answer key on page 2.
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