Lesson 44 • Student Practice Sheet • Wheeler's Speller

BOOK 1 • WHEELER'S SPELLER Primary Phonics Curriculum • Lesson 44

STUDENT PRACTICE WORKSHEET

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Phonological Mastery: Giving each letter c its proper Webster mark: Soft c (ç) before e, i vs. Hard c (c̄) before consonants/word endings.

WEBSTER MARKS • ç vs c̄

1 Copy carefully and spell orally.

Column 1 since, price, mice

1. since

2. price

3. mice

Column 2 city, cent, dance

4. city

5. cent

6. dance

Column 3 clip, zinc, place

7. clip

8. zinc

9. place

2 Sort and write each word, marking each c (ç or c̄).

Word Bank: since price mice city cent dance clip zinc place

Soft c (ç = /s/ sound as in ice)

Hard c (c̄ = /k/ sound as in can)

3 Read aloud, underline soft c, and copy.

📖 Literary Reading • Wheeler's Speller Page 28 Notice: façes • plaçes

“Happy hearts and happy faces,
Happy play in grassy places.”

— ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

📚 Rules to Remember • Lesson 44

Rule 1 • Soft C (ç) Before E & I

Letter c says soft /s/ before e or i (sinçe, priçe, miçe, çity, çent, dançe, plaçe). Marked with a cedilla ç.

Rule 2 • Hard C (c̄) Before Consonants

Letter c says hard /k/ before consonants (c̄lip) or at the end of a syllable/word (zinc̄). Marked with a bar c̄.

Rule 3 • Poetry Rhyme: -aces

In Stevenson's poem, façes and plaçes share the exact same soft c sound before the plural suffix -es.