Consonants
Soft c and soft g
C says /s/ and g says /j/ when the next letter is e, i or y, which is why “city”, “cent”, “gem” and “gym” do not start the way “cat” and “got” do. It is one of the few English spelling rules that holds almost every time.
Teach it as a rule about the following letter rather than as a list of words. Once a reader checks what comes after the c or g, they can decode words they have never seen.
Patterns and example words
Every word below is from the word list Cody generates from, not a hand-picked sample. The count is how many words in that list carry the pattern.
soft c
4,149 wordsplace placed places placing since service serviced services servicing face faced faces facing experience experienced experiences experiencing once cities city process processed processes processing
soft g
2,827 wordschange changed changes changing large larger largest age aged ages aging suggest suggested suggesting suggests language languages general generals charge charged charges charging range
Curricula that teach this
Cody generates material against the scope and sequence you already teach. This skill appears in Custom Pattern Selection, Reading Simplified: 1st Grade Pathway, Reading Simplified: 2nd Grade & Up Pathway, Slant System, UFLI Inspired.
Make a decodable story for this skill
Cody generates stories, word lists and worksheets constrained to the patterns a student has already been taught, so practice on soft c and soft g does not smuggle in something they have not met yet.