Do your emerging readers know that letters sometimes borrow the sounds of other letters? Explore the soft /c/ sound, explaining that c has borrowed the sound from s. After giving scholars some examples of words that begin with this phoneme, see if they can think of any. Play a fast-thinking game to test learners' letter recognition skills and cement this concept. Point to letters on the board. If it's a c or an s, they say the soft /c/ sound. For any other letter, they stay silent. Demonstrate this and then see how they do!