Examples of words starting with the letter C
There is a good story about our favorite letter that lists words starting with the letter c for children. One day the children noticed the letter C was missing. It was there, and then it disappeared suddenly. Then the children thought: where to look for her?
The answer was found quickly - in the circus! We got there, but there were no letters. Then, at the very end of the performance, the circus performer took out a cylinder and began to take out various objects from it. First I took out the flowers. But the circus performer didn’t think it was enough and chickens crawled out of the cylinder. After another swing, a huge heron came out, followed by a runaway letter “C”.
...first he took flowers out of his hat...
Consonant sound [ts], letters Ts, ts
In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a king. And he had a daughter, a princess. The princess was very capricious, and besides, she studied poorly and did not know a single letter.
The king really wanted his daughter to be literate: she could read and write. He hired different teachers, smart clowns. Even the teachers themselves dressed up as jesters.
But it was all in vain. The princess was constantly capricious and said:
─ I don’t want to and I won’t.
The king then decided to issue a decree.
The Ghanaians went to all ends and told all the people about the royal decree.
The next day a man came and brought some kind of chest.
─ Here, king, is the chest for you. When I leave, you will open it.
The king opened the chest, and there were some interesting packages.
─ Wow. Dad, let's see what it is.
The king opened one package, and there were letters, he opened another, and there were different games.
The princess became interested in these packages. And the king decided that he himself would teach her to read and write.
─ Look daughter, this is a big letter C
and a small
letter c
.
I am the king, and you are the princess. These words have the sound [ts]
, which is denoted in writing by a small
letter c
or a capital
letter C. For example, in the proverb: Chickens are counted in the fall.
Sound [ts]
is
a consonant sound
.
Let's try to pronounce it: [ts-ts-ts]
.
You see the teeth prevent the air from passing freely in the mouth, and a kind of barrier arises. And the sound [ts]
sounds dull, that’s why they say it’s deaf.
Now, daughter, let me show you how to write this letter. First, let's write a capital letter C.
, and now small.
─ Oh, I probably won’t remember these letters.
─ You will remember. Now we are going to play an interesting game. Here are some beads with letters.
Please collect all the letters t
on a string, and you will get beautiful beads.
Well done, you did everything right. Do you see the letter c?
you remember.
Well, now I’ll read it to you, and you tell me which letter c
should be written in the empty box: big or small.
So, the first word is circus. What letter should we write?
─ You can probably write a small one.
─ That's right, let's write a small letter c
. The next word is chicken Chick.
─ Ah, I remembered. In the word Tsyp we will write a capital letter C
.
Because this is the nickname of a chicken, and we remember that first names, patronymics, last names of people and animal names are written with a capital letter
.
─ Good. And you coped with this word. Well, I read the next word: sun.
─ Well, it’s quite easy. letter c is written in the middle of the word
. That's for sure.
─ Again, you said everything correctly. Let me now read you a sentence: A heron walks through the swamp.
─ Yes, we need to think about this. Aaaand I remembered again: words at the beginning of a sentence are written with a capital letter
.
This means that in the word heron we will write a capital
letter C.
─ Wow. Well, you know everything.
Well, you and I have learned the consonant sound [ts]
, which is denoted in writing by a capital
letter C
and a small
letter c
.
Here are the letters C:
With a claw at the end.
Scratchy claws
Like a cat's paws.
A little time passed and the king and his queen themselves taught the princess to read and write.
And the person who brought the chest with the letters received a bag of gold, because he was able to explain to the king that the best teachers for their children are dad and mom.
End. Well done to those who listened.
Characteristics of sounds and letters
The first thing you want to know is whether it is hard or soft. In the Russian language, there is a rule according to which softness and hardness are determined by the vowel sound behind it. But there is an exception to the rule.
For the letter c, what sound is determined not by the vowel, but by the unshakable norm of the Russian language. She's always firm. The statement applies to any words, even such as “circus” or “chicken”. For the reader, the question of whether the letter q is soft or hard is no longer so acute. The answer is known.
To help kids remember the letter c, you can ask them to color it.
Color the letter c
However, this is not the only characteristic of the sound ts. Let's try to determine whether a letter is voiced or unvoiced. Let's try to shout the letter "c". Will not work. The reason is that the dull sound ts, another characteristic has been found.
The letter ts denotes the unvoiced sound ts and is a consonant.
The reader knows that c is always hard; the answer to the question is the sound c hard or soft. In colloquial speech there is not much difference between the voiceless and voiced parts of a word. They are pronounced almost identically in form, but differ greatly in content.
Other characteristics of the letter t:
- Unpaired. Probably the most interesting characteristic of the letter c. Some letters in the Russian language form a pair of voiceless and voiced letters. For example, the letters “t” and “d” or “k” and “g”. But in the case of the letter “c,” the well-known pattern collapses. What is the reason? Above we talked about the sound “ts”. This is not entirely correct from the point of view of the Russian language. The reader and I had to make a slight simplification to get the point across. There is no sound “ts” in Russian. What appears to be like this is made up of two other "t's" and "s"'s joined together. Historians do not know when this happened.
- Found in Slavic alphabets. The printed letter c, familiar from childhood, is found in the Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbian alphabet. True, you need to know how the letter c is written in all these alphabets. Writing rules may change slightly. The serial number is also not the same. In Russian, the letter “ts” occupies 24th place, but in Bulgarian it ranks one step higher, and in Belarusian one step lower.
