cce cci success, accident

A cat can have an accident.

Rule: When ce and ci are together they always say the s sound: cents, cider.

Look: accept, do you see the ce team? Yes. So, ce is going to say s. Rule: ce  always says s. 

Do you see the letters cce in accept?  

What letter comes after the 1st c? Another c.

Can the 1st c say s?

What is your answer:   yes      no                       

No, the 1st c must say k because e or i does not come next. Say each letter sound in the word accept one by one: a k s e p t.  (short e)

Look at succeed. Do you see the ce team?    yes     no    Rule: ce is going to say s. What letter comes after the 1st c ? _____     Is that an e or i?   yes     no

The 1st c must say k.     Say each letter sound in succeed one by one: s u k s e d. (long e)

This is the rule for words that have cce and cci. Now that you have practiced the rule in the words accept and succeed, tell me the rule. I will wait and listen while you tell me the rule. ____
Did you say, when a word has cce and cci, the 1st c says k, the 2nd c says s because the rule is ce and ci  always say s ?      yes      no
Try to sound out:

accident                  succeed               success             vaccine              accept

accidentally            succeeded           successful          vaccinated         accepted

Vaccine means a bit of medicine given as protection, as in, we give my dog the rabies vaccine so my dog won't get rabies.

Let's try accelerate which means to speed up. As in, the mouse accelerated its running when it saw the cat behind it. Did you see the cce letters in accelerated?  yes   no   

Does the word accelerated have the ce team?  yes   no    What does the ce team always say?

_______   So, accelerated does have the ce team which always says s.

Say each letter in accelerated: a k s e l e r a t d.   Make up four sentences using the word accelerate, or accelerated, accelerating. Have fun with the words on this page.

Do not be confused by the slang word soccer. Both c's say k but soccer is a slang word made up by British boys. Sometimes slang words follow the phonics rules; sometimes they don't.

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