Preschool letter c words

C Words for Kids - C Word Lists and Free Printable Activities

Want some help coming up with some common C words for kids? If so, grab your coffee and I will give you some clever and creative words that begin with C.

These C words for kids will be a charming addition to your kid’s vocabulary. From cocoa and cupcakes to candy and crayons, I’ve got C word lists for preschool, kindergarten, elementary, and advanced.

But that’s not all. There are also other C word lists for foods, places, animals, and objects that belong with C. As well as, Ch words, three-letter C words and four-letter C words for kids.

One more thing before we get cracking, make sure you get the free printable C Words for Kids Learning Pack that is available at the end.

What are the Sounds of C

The letter C can make two sounds: A hard /c/ sound as in: can, car, cope AND a soft C sound (/s/) as in: cent, cyst, and city. The C is soft if it come before an i, e, or y. Otherwise it makes the hard /c/ sound.

The Sounds of C:

• Hard C says /c/ as in: cat, comb, candy
• Soft C says /s/ as in: cent, city, cyst

Note: there are also common letter combinations for letter C. These letter combinations for letter C include: cl, cr, ck, ch.

C Words for Preschool

Preschool is a wonderful time to learn letter C, as well as, easy C words that demonstrate the hard /c/ sound. (Start with the hard /c/ sound first, so your preschooler is not overwhelmed with multiple letter sounds at this point.)

*Need more help with letter recognition, letter sounds, prewriting, for your preschooler? Check out these resources: Printable Preschool Learning Folder, Preschool Daily Skill Builder, and Prewriting Book 1.

Here are some easy C words for preschool:

Words that begin with C for Preschool:

• Cat – The cat purred while she sat in my lap.
• Can – There is a can of green beans in the pantry.
• Cake – My mom makes the best chocolate cake.
• Coat – My coat keeps me warm.
• Camp – I am going to summer camp.
• Corn – Corn tastes good with butter and salt.
• Clap – Clap your hands for the winners!
• Carrot – I gave my horse a carrot.
• Camera – Jane takes beautiful pictures with her new camera.
• Clouds – The clouds are fluffy and white.
• Candy – I got lots of candy at the parade.

C Words for Kindergarten

Learning a variety of words for each letter of the alphabet is really beneficial in building a well-rounded vocabulary. With that being said, here are some easy C words for kindergarten:

Do your kids need more practice with letter recognition, beginning and ending sounds, and early reading? If so, check out this printable Kindergarten Daily Skill Builder.

Words that begin with C for Kindergarten:

• Cow – We milk our cow every morning.
• Car – Our family has a red car.
• Cup – I filled my cup with apple juice.
• Cap – My baseball cap is dark blue.
• Cone – Bill ordered a strawberry ice cream cone.
• Cage – The bird had a swing in her cage.
• Card – I wrote a birthday card for my cousin Sal.
• Crab – The crab crawled back into the water.
• Clock – Look at the clock and tell me what time it is.
• Clothes – Your clothes look like they are getting to small for you.
• Catch – I will throw the ball and you catch it.
• Castle – The princess lived in a castle.
• Camel – A camel is a fascinating animal.
• Cookies – There are three cookies left.
• Candy – I didn’t eat too much candy.

Words that end with C for Kindergarten:

• Music – I like to listen to all types of music.
• Sync – I need to sync my devices.
• Zinc – My mom takes zinc when she starts to feel unwell.
• Disc – The disc was scratched and we couldn’t use it anymore.
• Arc – The rainbow made a stunning arc in the sky.

Three Letter C Words for Beginning Readers

Three letter C words and four letter C words are great for preschoolers, kindergartners, and early readers . These easy short C word options will come in handy for building kids phonemic awareness as well as sight word repertoire.

Three letter C Words for Kids

• Cab
• Cad
• Can

• Cap
• Car
• Cat

• Caw
• Cod
• Con

• Cop
• Cow
• Cox

Four letter C Words for Kids

• Cabs
• Cafe
• Cage
• Cake
• Calf
• Call
• Calm
• Came
• Come
• Camp
• Cane
• Coil
• Coin
• Coma
• Cook
• Comb
• Cute

• Cans
• Cape
• Capo
• Caps
• Card
• Care
• Carp
• Cars
• Cart
• Case
• Cash
• Coax
• Code
• Cool
• Coop
• Copy
• Curd

• Cast
• Cats
• Cave
• Cell
• Cent
• Chat
• Chef
• Chew
• Chip
• Chop
• Chow
• Coal
• Coat
• Core
• Cork
• Cost
• Cyst

• Chug
• Chum
• City
• Clad
• Clam
• Clan
• Clip
• Clap
• Claw
• Clog
• Club
• Clue
• Clot
• Crab
• Cram
• Crib
• Cuff

Ch Words for Kids

There are many Ch words for kids that can also be include in your list of words that begin with C. Here are some of the more common Ch words for kids:

Ch Words for Kids:

• Chain
• Chair
• Chalk
• Chance
• Chant
• Chap
• Chapter
• Charcoal
• Charge
• Chill

• Charity
• Charm
• Chart
• Chat
• Cheap
• Cheat
• Check
• Cheek
• Cheer
• Chore

• Cheese
• Cheetah
• Cherry
• Chew
• Check
• Chief
• Child
• Chip
• Chop
• Chum

C Words for Elementary Students

Building your students knowledge of C words as they get into the elementary years will impact their writing and speaking skills, as well as, their confidence. Check out some of these C words for elementary students ideas:

C Words for Elementary Students:

• Cat – We have a black and gray cat named Oscar.
• Cow – The cow is ready to be milked.
• Can – Will you open this can of green beans?
• Chair – Sit down in the chair.
• Cup – Father handed me a cup of coffee.
• Copy – Here is a copy of my favorite book.
• Cook – My sister is going to cook dinner tonight.
• Cute – The cat was really cute.
• Cinema – We went to the cinema to see the latest movie.
• Could – Could you help me clean the garage?
• Castle – A lonely castle sat on the top of the hill.
• Clock – The clock says that it noon.
• Celery – I like to eat celery with peanut butter.
• Circus – We saw elephants and tigers at the circus.
• Central – We decided to meet at a centra location.
• Calculator – The teacher said we could use a calculator to help solve the math equations.
• Cello – My sister plays the violin and I play the cello.
• Cookie – Do you want a cookie with your lunch?
• Cross – Be careful when you cross the street.
• Care – It is my job to care for the animals.
• City – We used to live in the city.
• Camel – A camel can go a long time without getting thirsty.
• Camera – I took my camera on our vacation.
• Couch – Our family all sat on the couch and watched a movie together.
• Coffee – My mom drinks coffee every morning.
• Chart – Here is a chart of your progress.
• Comics – We like to read the Sunday comics every week.
• Cheerful – Bella was happy and cheerful.
• Classy – The duchess is a classy lady.
• Creative – Painting is my creative outlet.
• Clever – The fox of was clever and cunning.
• Chill – I put my drink in the freezer to give it a quick chill.
• Calm – He remained calm during the stressful situation.
• Comfort – I tried to comfort my grieving friend.
• Child – The child tripped on her shoelace and fell over.
• Children – The school was bustling with children and teachers.
• Chicken – We are having chicken and rice for dinner.
• Collar – The collar on my shirt is stained.
• Coral – We saw colorful coral when we went scuba diving.
• Cowboy – The cowboy rode his horse down the road.
• Crayon – We need a new red crayon.
• Cucumber – Cucumber salad is my favorite on a hot summer day.
• Cabbage – My mom grew a cabbage in her garden.
• Contest – She won the contest and got the blue ribbon.
• Consider – Consider the consequences before you make that decision.
• Courage – It takes courage to do the right thing.
• Commit – I am ready to commit to this relationship.
• Cupcake – I chose the chocolate cupcake.
• Coyote – The coyote hid out of sight.
• Cantaloupe – We had cantaloupe and berries for breakfast.

Challenging C Words for Kids

Do your children enjoy challenging C words? If so, check out these clever yet somewhat, complex C words for kids. (This C word list is geared more towards upper elementary and beyond)

Challenging C Words for kids:

• Confident – I feel confident that I am going to win the race.
• Communicate – Dolphins communicate with noises and body language.
• Courageous – The firefighter was courageous and ran in to rescue the boy from the burning building.
• Committed – They are committed to their marriage.
• Chandelier – A large chandelier hung from the ballroom ceiling.
• Cantankerous – The old man was ornery and cantankerous.
• Chatterbox – Her mom called her a chatterbox because she never stopped talking.
• Calligraphy – We wrote the invitations in our best calligraphy handwriting.
• Considerate – He was always kind and considerate of others.
• Chivalry – Chivalry is not dead.
• Capable – We have left our baby in the capable hands of her grandmother.
• Charming – The gentleman was charming and kind.
• Champion – Matt was the all-star chess champion for this year.
• Charity – Charity means love.
• Commendable – I praised him for his commendable act.
• Courtesy – He gave Jane the. courtesy of going first.

Nouns That Start with Letter C

Wanting a list of every day items that begin with C? Perhaps your students are putting together a C word letter collage or trying to come up with a snack using only foods that begin with C? If so, here are some common foods, animals, places, and objects that begin with C.

Foods that start with C:

• Cabbage
• Cake
• Carmel
• Candy
• Carrot
• Cantaloupe
• Cocoa
• Coconut
• Coffee
• Crab

• Catfish
• Cauliflower
• Cayenne
• Celery
• Cereal
• Chicken
• Coleslaw
• Cookies
• Cornbread
• Cupcakes

• Cheese
• Cherries
• Chickpeas
• Chives
• Chocolate
• Cinnamon
• Crackers
• Cranberries
• Cream
• Cucumbers

Animals that start with C:

• Caribou
• Centipede
• Cat
• Chinchilla
• Cow
• Coyote

• Caterpillar
• Catfish
• Chameleon
• Chihuahua
• Cougar
• Clownfish

• Cheetah
• Chicken
• Chimpanzee
• Chipmunk
• Crab
• Cockroach

Places that start with C:

• Cambodia
• Canada

• Chad
• Chile

• Cameroon
• Calcutta

• Cairo
• California

Objects that start with C:

• Can
• Candle
• Cactus
• Camera
• Canoe
• Candy
• Car

• Carpet
• Carton
• Case
• Castle
• Chalk
• Chair
• Chess

• Chick
• Clothes
• Clock
• Circle
• Cloud
• Clown
• Coat

• Cotton
• Crayon
• Crane
• Cork
• Collar
• Chopsticks
• Cheese

Vocabulary Activities That Help to Teach C Words to Kids

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• Play a C Word Unscramble: Write a word from your C word list on a white board or chalkboard with the letters mixed up. Then, have your kids see if they can unscramble the letters and figure out what C word it is. (For multiple kids, you can make it a contest to see which team can unscramble the C word first)

• Utilize C Word Printables – First of all, make sure you get the free C Words for Kids Learning Pack that is available in this post. Then, find some fun and free C word coloring sheets or other activity pages that help to build your student’s C word vocabulary.

• Read Books that Feature C Words – Reading together is such an easy and fun way to learn more C words. Find some books that feature C words (repeated C words throughout) like Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina OR Corduroy by Don Freeman.

• Play C Word Ball Pass: To begin, get a ball and brainstorm as many C words as you can. To play, toss the ball back and forth. The trick is, you have to say a new C word each time you pass the ball. The first person to run out of C words looses the game.

• Make a C Word Snack – This is a super fun and tasty way of learning new C words! See if you can make a snack using only foods that begin with the letter C. What will you come up with? Chocolate cake? Candy in cookies? Cherries and cream? There are tons of creative C word snack ideas!

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List of Words That Start With Letter 'C' For Children

• List of C Words For Kids
• Words That Start With C For Kindergarten And Preschool Kids
• C Words For Lower Elementary Kids
• Cool Words That Start With The Letter C For Kids
• Positive Words That Start With Letter C For Children
• More Words That Start With The Letter C
• Activities That Will Help Your Child Learn Words With C

Every child is different, and so is the learning ability of each child. It’s vital to teach kids based on their learning abilities and learning speed. Introducing words that start with C to kindergarten, preschool, and nursery kids will teach them the new words and sounds. English words with C can have varied sounds and pronunciations based on its place in the word it the adjacent letter. It creates the /s/ sound in the word ‘city’, and the /k/ sound is in the cat word. Placed along with an H, it commonly creates a CH sound as in Choice or Change. In some cases, especially words adopted from french, it can also create a SH sound as in Chandelier and Chateau.

Parents and teachers must introduce kids to new words every time they get a chance, to expand their vocabulary. Teaching children words beginning with each letter individually also gives them a strong understanding of phonics. Listed below are various kinds of c words for your reference.

List of C Words For Kids

There are two types of sounds in words beginning with C. When the letter C appears in a word before or followed by the letters i, e, and y, then they are known as soft c words. If c is in front or followed by any other letter than these, they are known as hard c words. Let’s look into some of the words that start with C that are easy to grasp for kindergarten kids. Before going into long and complex words with C, start by introducing your kids to some commonly used words. These easy and simple words will help your child to quickly understand and recognise the letter C and the words beginning with C. Below are a few common words with C for fundamental learning.

Words That Start With C For Kindergarten And Preschool Kids

If kindergarten, preschool or nursery kids can differentiate between the pronunciation of soft C and hard C, it’ll make them well-versed in understanding words that start with C. To make it easy for them to differentiate the words on their own, we must guide them to recognise and pronounce these words. Splitting the words letter by letter can help children in quickly grasping a particular word, its sound, and pronunciation. Let us introduce your child to two and three-letter words with C that are small, simple, and easy to teach kids.

2 Letter Words That Start With C

3 Letter Words That Start With C

C Words For Lower Elementary Kids

For lower elementary kids, teach these four-letter, five-letter, six-letter, and seven-letter c alphabet words to give a strong boost to their basic c words. For the kids up to class 3, these words will give a wider exposure related to c words. These big and slightly complex c words will add more information and details to your little tot knowledge. Honestly, kids are most of the time distracted when unsupervised and lack proper learning skills. To make sure they are engaged and participative; introduce them to new vocabulary activities at regular time intervals which also incorporate discipline to your little one. Given below are some of the four-letter, five-letter, six-letter, and seven-letter c alphabet words for strong vocabulary skills.

4 Letter Words That Start With C

5 Letter Words That Start With C

6 Letter Words That Start With C

7 Letter Words That Start With C

Cool Words That Start With The Letter C For Kids

These cool words starting with c are the words that are used to express amazing and fun things that kids often find interesting. Teach these to your children and make their personalities even more cool and attractive. These words will be relatively in-depth, but your kids are going to love these cool words once they understand their meaning. So, here are some of the twenty cool c alphabet words:

Positive Words That Start With Letter C For Children

Positive words should definitely be in your kid’s word bank to spread positivity and good vibes everywhere. To teach your little ones some good words starting with c, check out these positive words that start with C that add good personality and behaviour traits to your children’s learning journey. These words, along with creating positive thinking, also create empathy in your kids.

More Words That Start With The Letter C

If you are looking to teach your child the names of common things that start with C, then here are some names of animals, and places that start with C. Check out these words for making your kid’s vocabulary strong and diverse. Try creative ways that your kids find interesting to learn and retain the knowledge. Make them say out loud the words, write them down, pronounce them, and repeat them after you. This method guarantees their learning to be effective.

Names Of Things That Start With C

Names Of Animal That Start With C

Names Of Places That Start With C

Activities That Will Help Your Child Learn Words With C

1. Let’s Make Cookies

Get your kids involved in engaging and participative activities to learn the letter C like making different types of cookies. Ask kids to bring a big cookie jar and then label it. Later, make cookies using cardboard cut-outs and write words with the letter C on every cookie. Pass on the jar to the kids and ask them to pick one cardboard cookie out of the jar and read aloud the word.

2. Colouring And Connecting

Make them recognise and colour the objects that start with C. You can get your child some engaging worksheets and activity books for this exercise.

3. Flashcards And Charts

An easy and quick way to make your kids revise their lessons is through flashcards and charts. Hang a few visually appealing charts with both images and words with the letter C for effective learning.

4. Making A Cat-On-A-Cup

Ask your kid to paste stickers of googly eyes and pipe cleaners on a disposable cup along with small cut-outs of triangles as ears, and voila! The cat is ready.

Kids will not enjoy learning in a monotonous and boring environment. Fun and interactive learning sessions are the best way to introduce them to quality education. These engaging and participative sessions ensure that your kid learns genuinely and effectively. Take this step in your kid’s learning journey with words that start with C. Likewise, gradually introduce all the alphabet letters to make their vocabulary good and strong. Having a strong vocabulary will help your child in all areas related to communication, such as reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

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Department of Education of the Administration of the Ershov Municipal District

expresses gratitude

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Head

Education

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We parents thank you very much!

Thank you for being with our children for many years. You helped them grow, develop, understand a lot about life and the world around them, friendship, responsibility and justice.

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Zavinsk

2022 9000 years, on behalf of the parents of the pupils of group No. 11, we address with words of gratitude to the team of teachers, employees and management of the preschool educational institution "Kindergarten No. 3" Brook ".

Please accept my sincere gratitude for the friendly and creative atmosphere that reigns within the walls of the institution, the organization of developmental and educational processes, and of course, the difficult professional work of teachers.

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The system of interaction between the teacher and pupils in our group No. 11 was organized competently, efficiently and surprisingly interesting, an approach was found for each child. Children love and trust their teacher, they visit the garden with joy. Already today we have the opportunity to observe that Anastasia Efremovna laid the moral foundations in every child, began the formation of their personality, opened a new world for children, in which there is a lot of unknown.

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We sincerely thank the teachers and the administration for the wonderful, touching and memorable congratulations to the graduates. Thank you so much for the idea of ​​the patriotic theme of the event, and the inclusion of the anthem of the Russian Federation in the festive concert. Such events contribute to the education of patriotism, high morality and spiritual culture.

Remain the same active people who love your profession, and be sure to continue your work on the patriotic education of preschool children. We sincerely wish you peace and kindness, happiness and health, love in your hearts!

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Your pedagogical skills, creative approach in solving the set tasks allow you to carry out the state policy in the matter of patriotic and moral education of the younger generation at the proper level.

We wish you further success, reaching new heights for the benefit of the development of the culture of your small homeland - the Mariinsky Municipal District.

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. Mariinsk

2022

Formation of reading prerequisites and letters in older preschool children



Preschool education is currently considered as an integral part of the continuous educational process, as its first important stage. Therefore, one of the main tasks of a modern kindergarten is to prepare children for school. Every child entering school must first of all acquire literacy, that is, learn to read and write. To do this, the preschooler must have the necessary prerequisites, suggesting:

- complete possession of speech sounds (their correct pronunciation, the ability to distinguish by ear), the skill of sound analysis and synthesis, the formation of the phonetic side of speech and its grammatical structure;

- Sufficiency of vocabulary;

- Possession of connected speech;

- the formation of visual-spatial representations (that is, ideas about the shape and size of objects and their location in space in relation to each other).

The success of teaching a child to read and write is largely determined by how well he masters the sound side of speech, since the sounds of oral speech are indicated with the help of letters. Therefore, in order to master the letters, it is necessary to be very clearly oriented in the sounds of speech, to be able to pronounce them correctly. An important factor is the clear distinction of all speech sounds by ear, that is, the recording of any word involves the ability to determine each sound included in its composition and designate it with the corresponding letter. If some sounds seem the same to the child, then during the letter he will experience difficulties in choosing the letters corresponding to these sounds. For example, in case of indistinguishability of sounds by ear B and P he will not know which first letter ( B or P ) should be written in the word bank or in the word stick , etc. The child does not distinguish some speech sounds by ear is the main reason for their substitutions in oral speech, and later on in writing. Therefore, possible difficulties in auditory differentiation of sounds must be identified and overcome before the child begins to learn to read and write.

When preparing a preschooler for learning to read and write, it is important to include the following tasks in classes:

- highlight the sound against the background of the word, for example, is there a sound L in the word onion ; further it is proposed to determine the presence of this sound in the following words: shovel, table, machine , etc.

- highlighting the first sound from the word (the child must name the first sound in the words: stork, duck, lake, willow, mole, grass , etc.)

- highlighting the last sound from the word (the child must name the last sounds in the words: juice, soup, lump, hare, chair, movie, winter etc.)

- determining the place of sound in a word (at the beginning, in the middle, at the end).

If the child copes with all these tasks, you can move on to exercises in a more accurate sound analysis of words. For example, name the first, second, etc. sounds. In words - a chair, a mask, a picture; determine what sound is heard after (before) O in the word air , etc.

For more successful mastery of sound analysis and synthesis of word composition, you can enter the color designation of sounds. A blue circle should indicate a hard consonant, a green circle a soft consonant, and a red circle a vowel. Laying out the scheme of the sound composition of a word with the help of circles helps children characterize each sound included in a given word, as well as visualize how many sounds are in the word, what is their sequence.

Great help in mastering the skill of sound analysis and synthesis of the formation of the phonetic side of speech and its grammatical structure is provided by the use of various schemes. They make it easier for children to understand the possibility of dividing sounding speech into sentences, sentences into words, words into syllables and sounds; serve as a support in isolating the studied sounds from the original words, act as a means of controlling the analysis carried out when writing and working with a split alphabet.

When drawing up sentence diagrams, children will learn that the first word in a sentence is capitalized, in the diagram we denote dash with corner |_____

A period or other intonation mark is placed at the end of a sentence.

|_____. |_____? |_____!

Particular attention should be paid to the preparation of sentences with prepositions. In order for children to remember that prepositions are separate words, and not to connect them with other words, special schemes can be used.

Significant problems in children cause the division of words into syllables. Dividing into syllables with the help of vertical lines, the game "Telegraph", "Help Dunno" will help to overcome these difficulties.

With pleasure, the guys select words for the given schemes with vowels (sounds):

A A ׀ A A