sight word homework

Are You Ready To Help A Beginning Or Struggling Reader?  Get My FREE Starter Kit Here!

37+ Free Sight Word Worksheets for Kindergarten or Preschool

Fun Sight Word Worksheets

Need a fun, interactive activity to help practice sight words? We literally have thousands of Sight Word Worksheets to be able to practice learning, writing, and reading the sight words!

These sight word worksheets make great practice work for preschool, kindergarten, first grade in a classroom or homeschool. In addition, these sight word worksheets are perfect for morning work, literacy centers, independent seat work, guided activities and homework!

When teaching children to read it is so important to teach the sight words. Many books that children read use only sight words OR, up to 80% of the words the children read are sight words. If children can read these words fluently, they would be confident, eager readers.

It is one of my goals to help children learn the sight words in a fun, engaging way. Children can create mini-books, or do cut and paste activities. OR, on of my favorite activities for teaching the sight words are color by letter/color by sight word worksheets!

Anyway, here are the sight word worksheets you can find on our site. Enjoy!

Sight words worksheets

Below you will find all the sight words worksheets and printables from around Planes&Balloons. Whether you have a preschooler at home who is just starting to read their first words or a beginner reader in kindergarten or first grade, sight words are a great way to encourage their efforts!

Sight words worksheets PDF

Teaching sight words helps promote literacy as well as reading and spelling fluency in later grades. The majority of worksheets and activities below are designed around the Dolch sight words list , which includes the most common 315 words in the English language (220 “service” words and 95 nouns).

Sight words are divided into groups for each grade, so children can build their high frequency words vocabulary continuously.

So far, I’ve created activities and sight words worksheets for grades pre-k to grade 1. And I keep making new ones, so make sure to come back and get more of my free printables.

Sight word list

Download the free printable Dolch sight word list for pre-k, kindergarten, and grade 1 below. I also designed Fry’s first 100 words list for your convenience.

Preschool Sight Words Worksheets

My preschool sight words worksheets include all 40 so-called pre-primer sight words. Children will play the find & color games, learn with sight word flash cards, or make art with sight word coloring pages.

Pre-primer sight words checklist and memory game – a fun way to work on sight words in preschool

Pre-primer sight word flash cards – great for quick sight words activity with your preschoolers

Sight word flash cards PDF – flashcards of all sight words from Dolch’s list and 200 high-frequency words from Fry’s list

Pre-primer sight word sentences – read the first sentences with sight words

Dolch pre-primer sight words coloring pages – make fun art with these large printable sight words

Do a dot preschool sight words worksheets – spot and dot sight words activity

Preschool sight words matching – let’s see if your students can spot the same sight words in each column

Kindergarten Sight Words Worksheets

These kindergarten sight words worksheets include activities such as sight word search, spot, and color sight words, sight words scramble, and more. Kindergarten students will practice their 52 sight words from the Dolch list.

Free sight word coloring pages – all 52 Dolch sight words to color or decorate with your students. Easily make a sight word wall!

Spot and dot sight words – a fun kindergarten activity to practice reading Dolch sight words.

100 first sight words bookmarks – learn the first 100 words with these colorful bookmarks

C ut and paste sight words – read the sight words and match them

Simple sentences to read – read first sentences with sight words and CVC words combined

Kindergarten sight words scramble – unscramble the sight words with these fun worksheets

Christmas words activity pages – practice most traditional Christmas words with these holiday worksheets

And more kindergarten sight word practice sheets here:

Tracing and writing sight words and first sight word search for the very young learners:

Sight word practice – read, trace, write and find all the sight words

Sight words search for kindergarten – find and cross out sight words in this word search for kindergarten

Dolch sight words tracing – a great way to practice sight words and writing all in one activity

First Grade Sight Words Worksheets

I have only recently added 1st grade worksheets to this site, so expect my list of grade 1 sight words to grow in the future. For now, here are a few Dolch sight words activities for first grade (41 sight words).

For tips and tricks on how to teach sight words to young learners, read this on-point Scholastic article .

FREE Printable Worksheets

• CVC missing vowel worksheets
• Ending sounds kindergarten worksheets
• CVC middle sounds worksheets
• Beginning sounds worksheets
• Beginning sounds cut and paste
• Cut and paste upper and lowercase letters
• Hot chocolate letter matching
• Free printable ABC letter find

• Skip to primary navigation
• Skip to main content
• Skip to primary sidebar
• Skip to footer

Check out our FREE  sight word worksheets   – we have over 150 in our database!

Sight Words, Reading, Writing, Spelling & Worksheets

Everything you need to know about sight words. We also provide articles and worksheets for parents and teachers to provide assistance with spelling, writing and reading.

Sight Words Worksheets

Sight words worksheets are great activities; they are the perfect supplement to a sight word lesson. We have created numerous worksheets to help your child or student develop a sight word vocabulary. Our selection of sight words is based on our reading curriculum and Dolch’s and Fry’s list containing common or high frequency words that a child should recognize by sight, rather than sounding out.

Printable Sight Word Worksheets

Kindergarten Worksheets

Dolch Worksheets

First Grade Worksheets

Featured Worksheets

Worksheet #5 is a blank template. Use this worksheet if you are working on a specific set of sight words.

The last worksheet (#6) is a blank template. Use this worksheet if you are working on a specific set of sight words.

Sight Word Instruction

Practice, repetition, and repeated exposure to sight words is critical when developing a sight word vocabulary. Ideally teach words that appear most frequently; a mere twenty-five words account for approximately a third of written material and many of these words are phonetically irregular. Sight words should be introduced in a cumulative manner. As new words are introduced, old words should be reviewed.

Our worksheets provide the perfect complement to a lesson by offering opportunities for your child or student to practice the sight words using both reading and writing activities.

Additional Sight Word Resources

• Sight Words Flash Cards
• Teaching Sight Words
• Sight Words Games

Reader Interactions

April 2, 2013 at 11:02 am

Awesome sight word practice sheets by season! 🙂 Thank you!!!

April 27, 2013 at 11:24 pm

I am really impressed with your blog. Keep up the nice quality work.

May 1, 2014 at 2:10 pm

Thanks I have been teaching my grandson with hooked on phonics and using these work sheets and it is wonderful…

January 7, 2015 at 10:43 am

These are great…Thank you.

November 4, 2015 at 5:49 pm

Awesome! Your sight word worksheets are so helpful and the children love them. Thank You!

August 26, 2016 at 9:12 pm

This is a great site to use with your small children.

October 28, 2016 at 1:15 am

Very awesome materials! Thank yo!!!!

September 27, 2017 at 10:57 am

Excellent site for sight word practice for students !! Thank you!!

[…] Worksheets […]

[…] https://www.sightwordsgame.com/sight-words/sight-word-worksheets/ […]

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Reading Worksheets, Spelling, Grammar, Comprehension, Lesson Plans

Sight Words

Sight words are frequently encountered words that can’t be sounded out – words like the, a, is, of, to, in, and, I, you, and that.  Because they can’t be sounded out or illustrated with pictures, it’s important that children learn to recognize these words on sight.  Because of this, sight word instruction should be an integral part of reading instruction in kindergarten through third grade.  If you’re a parent, you may not see the phrase “sight words” on your child’s spelling list homework but undoubtedly these words are mixed in with others.

Words on the “Dolch”  List are the most commonly taught sight words in early elementary grades. The lists were developed by Edward Dolch who determined that there are 220  common words that appear at a high frequency in reading material.  In fact,  over more than half of the most commonly used words are found on the the Dolch word lists.

A Guide to Sight Words

The following articles are designed to get you up and running with the basics of sight words and effective sight word instruction.

1.  What are sight words?

2.  Benefits of teaching sight words

3.  Teaching sight words – strategies for reading success

4.  Grade level application of Dolch sight words

5.  4th grade sight word instruction

Sight Word Worksheets

1. Printable Dolch Worksheets including practice sheets, wordsearch puzzles, flash cards, cloze worksheets, and word shape worksheets

There are many other important elements to reading instruction so it’s important to keep this in mind when teaching sight words. Reading aloud, guided reading, independent reading, etc. are all important elements that will yield the most reading success! Sight word recognition is a critical piece of this but must be accompanied by other balanced literacy strategies.

Educational Sight Word Flashcards

Digital sight word flash cards curated from the Dolch and Fry word lists. Covers high-frequency words in books and schools for pre-kindergarten (Pre-K), kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade. Proven to help teach words kids need to become fluent readers.

Digital Is Better

By using our digital flashcards, you don't have to worry about printing them, losing them, damaging them, or any other issues. Just load them up on a phone, tablet, or computer and you are good to go!

Can't Be Damaged

You don't have to worry about tears, wrinkles, spills, or any other potential damage.

Totally Sanitary

Since the flashcards are loaded digitally, they won't require any cleaning or maintenance.

Always Updated

Whenever we make an update to any of the cards, you will have instant access to everything!

Can't Be Lost

Always know where your flashcards are. You will always have access on your phone, tablet, or computer.

What Are Sight Words?

Sight words account for a large percentage (up to 75%) of the words used in beginning children's print materials.

Sight words are frequently used words that young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight, so that they can automatically recognize these words in print without having to use any strategies to decode them.

The advantage for children being able to recognize sight words automatically is that a beginning reader will be able to identify the majority of words in a beginning text before they even attempt to read it. Teachers often encourage children learn to recognize as many sight words as possible, whether in the home or classroom.

Recognizing sight words automatically is said to be advantageous for beginning readers because many of these words have unusual spelling patterns, cannot be sounded out using basic phonics knowledge and cannot be represented using pictures.

Sight words, also known as "Fry sight words," "Dolch sight words," "Dolch word list," or "Star words" are common words in the English language that children are encouraged to recognize without sounding them out using phonics. These words are often encountered in children's books and other elementary reading materials. They appear so often that it's beneficial for young learners to memorize them for more fluent reading. Words like "go," "what's," and many others are included in sight word lists.

Learning sight words is a crucial part of literacy instruction in early education. Sight word activities are designed to help kids become familiar with these words through repetition and practice. This set of words includes many that don't follow standard pronunciation rules, making them somewhat tricky for young readers. Sight words can include nouns and other parts of speech that hold meaningful context in simple sentences.

A fun game or an app (like ours!) can make sight word activities more engaging for children. Parents or caregivers can help their kids practice sight words at home, reinforcing the instruction they receive in school. This practice, along with the use of sight words in children's books, helps children read with more fluency and comprehension.

Sight words are very high frequency words and are a particularly common sight in many children's books. Recognizing these many words can help a child read more fluently and with better understanding. The mastery of these lists, which include words like "the," "and," "it," and "in," among many others, provides a solid foundation for a child's literacy development. The idea is that by the time a child is a grader, they will have a good overview of these words and have them embedded in their vocabulary and understand their meaning.

Automatically Recognized

Children will be able to instantly recognize sight words simply by seeing them.

No Decoding Necessary

Sight words are known to be difficult to sound out. Children that know their sight words don't have this issue.

Develop Fundamentals

Sight words help children master reading fundamentals like reading, writing, spelling, and sentence building.

Improve Reading Speed

Sight words help your child improve reading speed, fluency, and comprehension.

Multiple Flashcard Sets Included

Color coded flashcard sets make learning easy and fun!

Fry Sight Words

The full list of Fry Sight Words are included. We also include the first 100 Fry Sight Words for free!

Dolch Sight Words

All the Dolch Sight Words are included in our paid plans.

High Frequency Words

High Frequency Words are an essential part of learning sight words. We include them in any of our paid plans.

Most Common Words

The most common words found in early children's literature are included in any of our paid plans.

Awesome Learning Features!

Our sight word flashcards include several learning features to enhance your child's studying

Tap To Flip

These days, touch screens are a part of daily life. You or your child can simply tap a card to make it flip.

Shuffle Mode

Randomly shuffle the cards in the deck at the touch of a button.

Star To Study Later

Simply tap the "star" on any card to save it for later. Once you finish the deck, you have the option to study only the "starred" cards.

Switch Front And Back

Easily switch the front side of the cards with the back side at the touch of a button. Start with the back side or the front. Its up to you!

Educational Resources

Learn about sight words, e-learning, how-to, and more!

Top Sight Words to Enhance Reading Comprehension

The Ultimate Guide To Sight Word Flashcards: A Proven Tool For Early Readers

Do Sight Words Really Boost Reading Comprehension?

Simple pricing options.

We have a plan that fits your needs!

Our free plan. Best to see if our sight cards are a good fit for you.

Access to the first Fry 100 sight card deck

No expiration date

Knowledgebase support

Smart Learner

Access to all basic sight card decks

Access 1,200+ Sight Words

All basic updates

Technical support via email

14-Day Money Back Guarantee

Cancel anytime

Genius Learner

Access to all basic and premium sight card decks

Access all 2,000+ Sight Words

All basic and premium updates

Priority support via email

Frequently Asked Questions

We have an answer for you!

The cards are blank on one side because the goal with sight cards is to allow a student to recall the word shown initially while it is hidden from view.

You can see more about this in our knowledgebase page.

Your child can use these alone or with a parent or teacher.

The cards present a sight word on the front side and a blank area on the back side. The child, parent, or teacher can simply tap or click the card to flip.

Each card allows for "starring" the card to save for more study at the end of the deck, if needed.

There is also an included "shuffle" feature to mix up the cards in the deck.

Additionally, there is a "switch" feature to optionally show the back side first.

You can find more instructions in our knowledgebase page.

The sight card decks and other learning materials in our paid plans are separated into "basic" or "premium" tiers.

The "basic" level decks or learning materials are the minimum level learning tools and materials we offer. It includes most of what the average learner will need to acquire the skills for reading.

The "premium" level decks or learning materials are the most comprehensive level learning tools and materials we offer. These tools are advanced and tailored for the most exacting learners. The "premium" level also bundles in the "basic" level decks and materials, so if you choose our "Genius Learner" yearly plan, you will get everything we offer.

We offer a simple refund policy .

If you try one of our paid plans and don't think it is for you, simply request a refund within 14 days of the date of purchase. We will happily refund your money and cancel your account. No questions asked.

If you request a refund after the 14 day period, no refund will be issued.

You can cancel your account at any time and will not be charged for the next months service. Refunds for the initial month's purchase will not be issued after the 14 day period. Refunds on renewal payments will not be issued.

If you sign up and decide to cancel your service, you will have access for the current month's subscription duration.

We offer 3 different plans.

The "Learner" plan is our free plan. This plan includes access to the first Fry sight card deck only. There are 100 sight cards in this deck. This includes knowledgebase support only. There is no expiration date for this plan. This plan is best for people who want to try us out first before committing to a paid plan.

The "Smart Learner" plan is our monthly paid plan. It is $7.99 per month until you cancel. This plan give you access to all of the "basic" level sight card decks or materials. It includes technical support via email and a 14 day money back guarantee. You can cancel this plan at any time.

The "Genius Learner" plan is our yearly paid plan. This plan is the best for economic minded people as you get 2 months access for free (when compared to our monthly plan). This plan grants access to all "basic" level and "premium" level sight card deck or materials. It includes technical support via email and a 14 day money back guarantee. You can cancel this plan at any time.

Sight Words

Learn the history behind Dolch and Fry sight words, and why they are important in developing fluent readers.

Follow the sight words teaching techniques. Learn research-validated and classroom-proven ways to introduce words, reinforce learning, and correct mistakes.

Flash Cards

Print your own sight words flash cards. Create a set of Dolch or Fry sight words flash cards, or use your own custom set of words.

Play sight words games. Make games that create fun opportunities for repetition and reinforcement of the lessons.

• What Are Sight Words?
• Types of Sight Words
• When to Start
• Scaling & Scaffolding
• Questions and Answers

1. Overview

Sight words instruction is an excellent supplement to phonics instruction. Phonics is a method for learning to read in general, while sight words instruction increases a child’s familiarity with the high frequency words he will encounter most often.

The best way to learn sight words is through lots and lots of repetition, in the form of flashcard exercises and word-focused games.

2. What Are Sight Words?

Sight words are words that should be memorized to help a child learn to read and write. Learning sight words allows a child to recognize these words at a glance — on sight — without needing to break the words down into their individual letters and is the way strong readers recognize most words. Knowing common, or high frequency, words by sight makes reading easier and faster, because the reader does not need to stop to try and sound out each individual word, letter by letter.

Sight Words are memorized so that a child can recognize commonly used or phonetically irregular words at a glance, without needing to go letter-by-letter.

Other terms used to describe sight words include: service words , instant words (because you should recognize them instantly), snap words (because you should know them in a snap), and high frequency words . You will also hear them referred to as Dolch words or Fry words , the two most commonly used sight words lists.

Sight words are the glue that holds sentences together.

These pages contain resources to teach sight words, including: sight words flash cards , lessons , and games . If you are new to sight words , start with the teaching strategies to get a road map for teaching the material, showing you how to sequence the lessons and activities.

3. Types of Sight Words

Sight words fall into two categories:

• Frequently Used Words — Words that occur commonly in the English language, such as it , can , and will . Memorizing these words makes reading much easier and smoother, because the child already recognizes most of the words and can concentrate their efforts on new words. For example, knowing just the Dolch Sight Words would enable you to read about 50% of a newspaper or 80% of a children’s book.
• Non-Phonetic Words — Words that cannot be decoded phonetically, such as buy , talk , or come . Memorizing these words with unnatural spellings and pronunciations teaches not only these words but also helps the reader recognize similar words, such as guy , walk , or some .

There are several lists of sight words that are in common use, such as Dolch, Fry, Top 150, and Core Curriculum. There is a great deal of overlap among the lists, but the Dolch sight word list is the most popular and widely used.

3.1 Dolch Sight Words

The Dolch Sight Words list is the most commonly used set of sight words. Educator Dr. Edward William Dolch developed the list in the 1930s-40s by studying the most frequently occurring words in children’s books of that era. The list contains 220 “service words” plus 95 high-frequency nouns. The Dolch sight words comprise 80% of the words you would find in a typical children’s book and 50% of the words found in writing for adults. Once a child knows the Dolch words, it makes reading much easier, because the child can then focus his or her attention on the remaining words.

3.2 Fry Sight Words

The Fry Sight Words list is a more modern list of words, and was extended to capture the most common 1,000 words. Dr. Edward Fry developed this expanded list in the 1950s (and updated it in 1980), based on the most common words to appear in reading materials used in Grades 3-9. Learning all 1,000 words in the Fry sight word list would equip a child to read about 90% of the words in a typical book, newspaper, or website.

3.3 Top 150 Written Words

The Top 150 Written Words is the newest of the word lists featured on our site, and is commonly used by people who are learning to read English as a non-native language. This list consists of the 150 words that occur most frequently in printed English, according to the Word Frequency Book . This list is recommended by Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., Professor of Learning Development at Yale University’s School of Medicine.

3.4 Other Sight Words Lists

There are many newer variations, such as the Common Core sight words, that tweak the Dolch and Fry sight words lists to find the combination of words that is the most beneficial for reading development. Many teachers take existing sight word lists and customize them, adding words from their own classroom lessons.

4. When to Start Teaching Sight Words

Before a child starts learning sight words, it is important that he/she be able to recognize and name all the lower-case letters of the alphabet. When prompted with a letter, the child should be able to name the letter quickly and confidently. Note that, different from learning phonics, the child does not need to know the letters’ sounds.

Before starting sight words, a child needs to be able to recognize and name all the lower-case letters of the alphabet.

If a student’s knowledge of letter names is still shaky, it is important to spend time practicing this skill before jumping into sight words. Having a solid foundation in the ability to instantly recognize and name the alphabet letters will make teaching sight words easier and more meaningful for the child.

Go to our Lessons for proven strategies on how to teach and practice sight words with your child.

5. Scaling & Scaffolding

Every child is unique and will learn sight words at a different rate. A teacher may have a wide range of skill levels in the same classroom. Many of our sight words games can be adjusted to suit different skill levels.

• Confidence Builders suggest ways to simplify a sight words game for a struggling student.
• Extensions offer tips for a child who loves playing a particular game but needs to be challenged more.
• Variations suggest ways to change up the game a little, by tailoring it to a child’s special interests or making it “portable.”
• Small Group Adaptations offer ideas for scaling up from an individual child to a small group (2-5 children), ensuring that every child is engaged and learning.

6. Research

Our sight words teaching techniques are based not only on classroom experience but also on the latest in child literacy research. Here is a bibliography of some of the research supporting our approach to sight words instruction :

• Ceprano, M. A. “A review of selected research on methods of teaching sight words.” The Reading Teacher 35:3 (1981): 314-322.
• Ehri, Linnea C. “Grapheme–Phoneme Knowledge Is Essential for Learning to Read Words in English.” Word Recognition in Beginning Literacy . Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1998.
• Enfield, Mary Lee, and Victoria Greene. Project Read. www.projectread.com . 1969.
• Gillingham, Anna, and Bessie W. Stillman. The Gillingham Manual: Remedial Training for Students with Specific Disability in Reading, Spelling, and Penmanship, 8th edition . Cambridge, MA: Educators Publishing Service, 2014.
• Nist, Lindsay, and Laurice M. Joseph. “Effectiveness and Efficiency of Flashcard Drill Instructional Methods on Urban First-Graders’ Word Recognition, Acquisition, Maintenance, and Generalization.” School Psychology Review 37:3 (Fall 2008): 294-308.
• Shaywitz, Sally E. Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
• Stoner, J.C. “Teaching at-risk students to read using specialized techniques in the regular classroom.” Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3 (1991).
• Wilson, Barbara A. “The Wilson Reading Method.” Learning Disabilities Journal 8:1 (February 1998): 12-13.
• Wilson, Barbara A. Wilson Reading System . Millbury, MA: Wilson Language Training, 1988.

25 Responses to “Sight Words”

Thank you for great information!

Thank you for seeking answers to reading problems some people have.

Thank you for sending the link to my mom for this website, i can’t wait to explore it more and introduce it to my kids!!

Salex Dihan

Do you break up the sight words to make it easy?

ADMIN – Hi Salex,

Yes, you will only work on a couple of new Sight Words at a time. The youngest children can only handle 2-3 new words at a time. Third graders can handle introducing 5 to 10 new words at a time.

Isn’t teaching sight words the same thing as teaching with the thoroughly discredited whole-word reading method?

ADMIN – Hi Julia,

We get strong readers teaching Sight Words in conjunction with Phonics.

If you teach only phonics, where a child is sounding out words as their only approach, you run into two problems. First, some words are phonetically irregular (such as ‘little’), and can’t be sounded out. Second, sounding out even common words (such as ‘the’), makes reading slow.

If you are teaching only Sight Words, there are also problems. First, if you come across an unfamiliar word, you won’t have many strategies to figure out the word. Second, when you start writing, spelling is going to be harder for you.

Gerry Martin

Thank you SO much for all of this information about sight words and related reading concepts. I will relay this info to friends with children with special needs.

Jose Hernandez, Sr

After retiring from the USAF as an Education and Training officer and began a second career as a teacher. I was amazed at the number of children in middle and high school grades who lacked reading skills. My retirement from teaching coincided with daughter’s assignment to a near by military base and my grandson’s preK eligibility. In our rural area the trip to school was a major concern therefore we decided that I would home-school my four year old grandson instead. From various sources I compiled and printed 393 sight words on 3 by 5 index cards for first to third grade students. Now at age 5 and a half and in kindergarten he can read third grade sight words and he is learning phonics at school. Our sessions are very short (20 minutes) and simple. He has 15 seconds to read a randomly selected index card. A correctly read word earns a check mark and if he can use it in a sentence he earns a plus sign too. I have four stacks of cards as follows: 1) Main stack, 2) one checkmark, 3) two checkmarks, 3)Mastered (Three checkmarks). It works. At school his teacher has him read to the other students to help motivate them.

Anita Holaday

In looking over your material here on the internet I see no classroom checklist for all students in the class so the teacher can at a glance tell what words most of her students do not know. This is very important when using a direct instruction mode of teaching reading.

ADMIN – Hi Anita,

Thanks for the suggestion! The feedback we receive from our users helps us decide what features to add to the site.

Thank you for the great information on sight words. I am homeschooling my 4 year old son with ADHD and autism for preschool. I will be teaching him sight words over the summer to get him prepared for kindergarten.

Thank You! Your site is wonderful. Everything I need is right here, easy to find. I can’t wait to start using your tools to teach my DD.

Thanks … It is the best website talk about that topic … It is really helpful 🙂

Tonya Mercer

Last year there was a pre-test on here to see what sight words they were missing. Where can I find that again. This site is wonderful.

ADMIN – Hi Tonya,

Thanks! Our site has never had a pre-test for sight words, but I recommend that you quiz your child with flash cards for the words you think they should know. You can use our card generator to create flash cards from a custom word list. Set aside any words the child stumbles on, and give those words further review using our five teaching techniques .

Terri Hecht

My 5yo grandson has a lot of signs of dyslexia. He is starting kindergarten and does not recognize all his letters or numbers. We have worked a lot with him. This looks like it could help. Are there pictures for words like my , an , etc?

ADMIN – Hi Teri,

Our Phonemic Awareness curriculum is a great place to start with your grandson. I recommend that you start with the Compound Words module , and then work through the Syllables activities until he is firm in his understanding of the concepts. Here are a few other suggestions for you to pursue: 1. If your grandson’s school has a speech/language pathologist (SLP), set up a meeting. If the SLP knows the Fast ForWord program , that may help your grandson. 2. Consider using Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons at home daily. 3. Read Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz. It will give you some good information and strategies. 4. Buy a set of sandpaper alphabet letters . Have him use his first two fingers of his dominant hand to trace and repeat the names of the letters. Start with letters that look the same in both upper and lower case form (Cc, Ss, etc.). Then have him close his eyes (or use a blindfold) and move his two fingers to trace over the letter and see if he can name it. If he can’t, give him a choice of two, then three, then four to choose from. When he is firm with naming the letters when tracing them, use the same letters without a blindfold, mix them with other letters, point to one he’s traced, and have him name it. Once he’s learned the similar-looking upper-case and lower-case letters, add the dissimilar ones (Hh, Gg, etc.). 5. There are no visuals for words like my or an except in sign language. They are high frequency words that can be learned using our sight words teaching techniques after he has learned the names of all the lower-case alphabet letters. 6. Send his school a written communication requesting an evaluation to determine if a learning ability is evident. Date it and keep a copy! The request probably won’t be acted upon for a while, but it will put them on notice that you are concerned and why. This will strengthen your case if he continues to have problems that aren’t addressed. 7. If there is a tutor trained in Orton-Gillingham methodology in your area, look into hiring that person to help your grandson.

Melinda Buie

Can you recommend some research articles that look specifically at air writing and its benefits?

ADMIN – Hi Melinda,

Try this: http://www.resourceroom.net/readspell/2002_automaticity.html

First time to bump into this incredible resourceful website. I am simply loving all the helpful and guided links and instructions.

Josephine Francis

Would like to have a set of simple reading sentences for a 5 year old child

Thanks so much. I was able to train my teachers on using and teaching sight words with your materials and guide. I’m grateful. You guys are doing a great job here!!!!

Thank you for this information, I combined these lists to fit the needs of my ESL students here in Asia. We learn 5 words a week in my kindergarten class and I am so proud of them all and their current reading skills. They all passed their reading test for entering 1st grade.

Thank you…… It is really helpful.

I am a retired first grade teacher, reading specialist, principal and always educator. I now write a column for parents to know HOW to help their children learn called SUPPORTING SUPER STUDENTS (www.supportingsuperstudents.org). Since I am writing once again about helping children learn to read, I recommended your website as a resource for parents determined to help their children learn to read–whether educated publicly, privately or at home. It is one of the best for beginning readers. Thank you and I hope I have your permission for this recommendation.

Do you have any tips for teaching the alphabet? I homeschool and am trying to figure out where to start with my 4 and 5 year olds. If we start with the phoneme curriculum, should we be teaching letter recognition at the same time? Or is that part of the phoneme curriculum?

Thank you. It is really helpful to have the sight words games, flash cards, and lessons!

madison bennett

Really good!

Carl Brodanx

really good

Nalin Karunarathne

Excellent resources, specially as we are learning English as secondary language. really appreciate your work.

Leave a Reply

Click here to cancel reply.

• All Blog Posts , Freebies , Reading , Sight Words

7 Sight Word Practice Worksheets

Did you know that sight word practice can boost the confidence of a child? Imagine being an early reader who is about to read a page. When you look at the page, you soon realize that you can easily identify over half of the words on the page because they are sight words that you know. Your confidence will not only go up, but you will want to read even further!

Now imagine being an early reader who knows half of the words on the page. That means you only need to slow down your reading to focus on decoding new or challenging words. How exciting and encouraging is that?! Your brain won’t have to work so hard and your frustration will be less because of how many words (pssst… sight words) you can easily read.

That is why sight word practice is so important for early readers. Not only do sight words make up most of a reading page, but they are words that students will be exposed to daily for the rest of their lives.

This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Giving students exposure and practice with sight words will help them become more fluent readers, build their confidence, become better writers, promote reading comprehension, and the list goes on.

Do you like to add sight word practice to your day? There are so many ways to have students practice sight words and I am excited to share with you some of my favorite sight word practice worksheets.

What is great about sight word worksheets is that they can be used in so many ways. You can add them to your morning work, centers, small groups, whole group instruction, early finishers, homework, and so much more!

1. Sight Word Practice Pages

I love when you can practice so many different skills that all relate to the same thing and especially when it is all on one page! That is exactly what this sight word practice worksheet has.

This sight word worksheet is packed with different activities all about the focus sight word. Students get to practice spelling, tracing, writing, rainbow writing, identifying, reading, problem solving, and building the sight word. This is all while also working on letter formation, handwriting, and fine motor skills.

You can add this activity as a sight word review after learning the word, add it to your morning work, homework, and more!

2. Sight Word Puzzles

You know how much I love a mystery! Of course, I was going to find a way to include a mystery puzzle in our sight word practice!

This sight word worksheet has students tracing and writing the sight word. Then, they cut out the puzzle pieces and build the sight word to reveal a mystery picture. This picture that they reveal is important because it will help them read the sentence.

By adding the sight word to the sentence to make it complete, students get to practice reading the sight word in context. When sight words are used in context, students often begin to understand their purpose and how sight words are used. This then leads to an increase in reading fluency and comprehension.

Exposing our students who are early readers to sight words is so important. The more exposure they have, the more those sight words will stick.

Think of how many of your students may recognize a McDonald’s sign. I am sure that they have driven past one or have eaten there many times. Because they have been exposed to the McDonald’s sign many times, they now know what it is when they see it.

I like to think of these sight word hats as the McDonald’s sign! Okay, so it may not be quite like that but I can only hope!

These sight word hats get to be worn around the class all day which gives students exposure to the sight word they are learning ALL DAY LONG. Students might not be able to see their own hat, but seeing their classmate’s hat and saying the word to themselves when they see it will give them so much practice and exposure to the sight word in just one day!

Want to try a worksheet from these 3 sight word ideas for FREE?

Now that we have gotten through the first 3 sight word practice activities, I wanted to let you try them out! You can grab a sight word practice page, a sight word puzzle, and a sight word hat for FREE below.

4. Editable Books

Do you notice how proud students are when they get their own book? Especially if it is a book or mini reader that they can read on their own or retell the story using the pictures.

These sight word books are not only packed with interactive sight word activities, but they will give your students lots of pride after they complete them!

You can add any sight word of your choice to these books because they are editable. Just type the sight word of your choice and the book will be created instantly!

When you open the book, students will get to practice tracing and writing the sight word. Then, they will search the boxes to find and color the sight word. On the next page, students get to practice writing the sight word in order of the colors of the rainbow. They also get to do some problem solving by writing the missing letter or letters of the sight word to make it complete.

When they turn to the next page, students will get to unscramble and write the sight word correctly. Then, they will sort different words by whether they are or are not the sight word. Last, it is time to practice reading the sight word in context. You can even have them find and circle the sight word in each sentence.

5. Editable Mystery Pictures

I was able to add some mystery puzzles to our sight word practice, but I also needed to add some sight word mystery pictures! I must say, I love working on mystery pictures myself. Not knowing what the mystery picture is going to be until the end is so much fun!

Have you tried some mystery pictures in your classroom? They are one of the most requested activities and my students truly can never get enough.

These sight word mystery pictures have students reading and writing the sight words. Then, they use the color code to color the sight words in the boxes the correct colors to reveal a mystery picture.

What is even better is that this activity is editable. You can pick the sight words you want to include in each mystery picture. This will allow you to be able to differentiate the activity with your students!

6. Writing on a Rainbow

I love the way these sight word printables turn out in the end. They instantly bring a smile to everyone’s face and they are just so pretty!

Students start by rainbow writing the sight word on the clouds.

Next, they begin to write the sight word on each ray of the rainbow. The first ray will have the sight word written in red. The second ray will have the sight word written in orange. The third ray is yellow and this continues in the order of the colors of the rainbow until it is complete.

Not only is the end result pretty, but students don’t even realize that they have written the sight word about 50 times!

7. Trace, Write, Rainbow Write

Having a worksheet that can be used in more than one way is always a teacher win! This sight word printable can be used in multiple ways.

You can have students trace, write, and rainbow write the sight words. You can also slide this sight word printable into a paper protector and have students practice tracing and writing the sight word with a dry erase marker . Add another fun twist by having students build the letters of the sight word with playdoh !

Adding dry erase markers and playdoh to this one sight word worksheet will get students so excited and eager to do the activity!

Save These Sight Word Practice Worksheets for Later

What are some of your favorite sight word activities that you like to do in your classroom? I would love to hear! Leave me a comment below and share with me!

Be sure to save these sight word practice activities to your favorite Pinterest board so that you can come back any time for engaging ideas that you can add to your classroom or home!

In Case You Missed These FREE Sight Word Worksheets

You might also like....

The Benefits of Arts and Crafts in Kindergarten

Fun Kindergarten Activities for Summer

Fun Sentence Practice for Kindergarten

Free Printable Puzzles for Kindergarten

Helpful Links

• Shop on TPT

FREE Alphabet Book

These alphabet books will have students dive deep into learning about each letter of the alphabet while eager to see what activity they get to complete next!

• Privacy Policy
• Disclaimers
• Terms & Conditions

• Grades 6-12
• School Leaders

Get our FREE Classroom Seating Charts 🪑

55 Fun Sight Word Activities That Work

It’s a myth that blindly memorizing every letter in a sight word is the only way to learn it.

Teachers are always on the hunt for great sight word activities. Sight words are any words readers recognize automatically “by sight”—for fluent readers, that’s almost all words! High-frequency words, the most commonly occurring words in written English, like those on the Dolch list , are often thought of as the most crucial sight words.

It’s a myth that blindly memorizing every letter in a sight word is the only way to learn it. The science of reading tells us that linking sounds and letters is the most effective way for kids’ brains to learn any word. Many common words are easy to tackle using beginning phonics skills (like “at,” “can,” “him,” etc.), so staying true to a strong phonics curriculum is one way to support kids’ sight word learning. Even irregularly spelled words have decodable parts, e.g., kids can use the sounds of “s” and “d” to help with “said,” even if the “ai” is unexpected. Experts often call these words “heart words” to call out for kids that they should learn the unexpected word parts “by heart.” (If all this is unfamiliar to you, it can feel overwhelming, but you’ve got this! Check out teaching guru Jillian Starr’s explanation for more help.)

Read: What Are Sight Words?

Check out these low-prep and engaging sight word activities for both teaching and practicing words.

Sight Word Activities for Introducing Words

These activities are great when you are introducing new words or when students need a reminder of the letters and patterns that make up each word.

1. Map it and drive it

@droppinknowledgewithheidi/LEGO sight word activity via Instagram

This is a genius way to introduce words with appealing materials: Say the word, represent each sound with a LEGO brick, write letters for each sound, and “drive” to read it.

Learn more: @droppinknowledgewithheidi

2. Smush play dough for each sound

@playdough2plato/Sound mapping activity via Instagram

Set up a routine that works for any word. Play dough squishing for each sound is the ultimate multi-sensory component.

Learn more: @playdough2plato

3. Map words with a magnet wand

@warriorsforliteracy/Heart word activity via Instagram

It is so super-satisfying to drag those magnetic dots around! Watch the video below for lots of tips on introducing a word using this process.

Learn more: @warriorsforliteracy

4. Make a mini book

@hughesheartforfirst/Sight word activity via Instagram

Create a mini-book they can take home with them to read on their own.

Learn more: @hughesheartforfirst

5. Tap it, pop it, learn it!

@hellojenjones/Pop-It sight word activity via Instagram

Hardwire those words in kids’ brains with this comprehensive word intro routine. (You had us with the Pop-Its !)

Source: @hellojenjones

Sight Word Activities for Practicing Words

Once students have learned a word, it’s all about practice, practice, practice! These activities will help students learn words by “heart.”

6. Find and swat words

@kids_play_laugh_learn/Sight word activity via Instagram

An oldie but such a goodie. Find a word in an array and whack! Swat it with a fly swatter!

Learn more: @kids_play_learn_laugh

7. Flip word pancakes

Playdough to Plato/Sight word pancakes via playdoughtoplato.com

Serve up sight word pancakes while practicing spelling them aloud.

Learn more: Playdough to Plato

8. Wear heart word bracelets

@teachingmore/Sight word bracelets via Instagram

Make kids feel like sight word VIPs and keep sight word review on hand.

Learn more: @teachingmoore

9. Search for sight word balls

@preschoolforyou/Sight word ball activity via Instagram

Write sight words on ball pit balls with a chalk marker or dry-erase marker. Kids can race around hunting for balls to read and toss in a basket, or hunt through a big tub of balls for a certain word.

Learn more: @preschoolforyou

10. Start a sight word band

@earlyyears_withmrsg/Sight word band via Instagram

Loud but oh-so fun! Feel the rhythm while tapping and reading sight words stuck to homemade percussion instruments.

Learn more: @earlyyears_withmrsg

11. Drive on a sight word path

@travisntyler/sight word car activity via Instagram

This is one of many fun ways to use magnetic tiles for learning! Kids love “knocking down” word tiles with a toy car as they read each one.

Learn more: @travisntyler

12. Use sticky notes to inspire sight word sentences

@kinneypodlearning/sticky note sentence activity via Instagram

Have kids stick words on items that give them ideas for sentences. “My Mom said to wear a helmet!” = so good!

Learn more: @kinneypodlearning

13. Write words on a sensory bag

@make.it.multisensory/Gel bag activity via Instagram

So easy: Fill a zip-top bag with a small amount of kid-safe paint, seal well, and have kids practice “writing” sight words with their finger or a cotton swab.

Learn more: @makeitmultisensory

14. Wear a sight word crown

@mrsjonescreationstation/Sight word hats via Instagram

Wear your word proudly and practice reading others’ words. Fun in person or virtually.

Learn more: @mrsjonescreationstation

15. Play a magnetic-tile board game

@twotolove_bairantwins/Sight word racetrack via Instagram

We love new ideas for ways to use magnetic tiles for sight word activities. Easy to set up and fun to play.

Learn more: @twotolove_bairantwins

16. Spell words to a familiar tune

@builditbre/Sight word song via Instagram

Get sight words stuck in everyone’s head, in a good way. We’d add a line for chanting the sounds in the word!

Learn more: @builditbre

17. Feed a word monster

@ecplayandlearn/Sight word monster via Instagram

Nom, nom, nom.

Learn more: @ecplayandlearn

[contextly_auto_sidebar]

18. Search for the pom-pom under sight word cups

@la.la.learning/Sight word cup game via Instagram

Read all the words as you try to find the cup that hides the prize.

Learn more: @la.la.learning

19. Play sight word Kaboom!

@essentiallykinder/Sight word game via Instagram

This classroom classic is perfect for sight words. If you need a refresher on the rules, Jillian Starr covers them.

Learn more: @essentiallykinder

20. Roll and write words

@mylittlepandamonium/Sight word dice roll game via Instagram

Roll, write, repeat.

Learn more: @mylittlepandamonium

21. Write words with rainbow colors

@mylittlepandamonium/Sight word rainbow writing via Instagram

Bonus points for aromatic markers.

22. Trace words with flashlights

@giggleswithgerg/Sight word flashlight writing via Instagram

Stock up on batteries because kids never get tired of this!

Learn more: @giggleswithgerg

23. Find words in plastic eggs

@blooming_tots1/Sight word hunt via Instagram

Give kids a checklist of words to find as they open each egg.

Learn more: @blooming_tots1

24. Spy words around the classroom

@readingcorneronline/I Spy sight words activity via Instagram

Just add a magnifying glass and clipboard to make kids feel like supersleuths!

Learn more: @readingcorneronline

25. Find words in the morning message

@tales_of_a_kinder_classroom/Morning meeting sight words via Instagram

Don’t forget about old standbys! This is one of our favorite ways to get kids to recognize sight words in connected text.

Learn more: @tales_of_a_kinder_classroom

26. Build words with bricks

The Printable Princess/Sight words with bricks via theprintableprincess.com

Such a great use of extra building bricks!

Learn more: The Printable Princess

27. Write words in sand

@teacherhacks_/Sand writing via Instagram

Easy-peasy to set up and keep neat if you use plastic pencil boxes.

Learn more: @teacherhacks

28. Spell words on a construction site

@planningplaytime/Construction site sight words via Instagram

Bulldozing over each word to read it is the best part!

Learn more: @planningplaytime

29. Spell words with toy cars

@lozlovesprep/Car sight word activity via Instagram

Drive on over!

Learn more: @lozlovesprep

30. Park in a sight word “parking lot”

@msbendersclassroom/Parking lot sight word activity via Instagram

This one is easy to modify based on whatever toys are available in the classroom or at home.

Learn more: @msbendersclassroom

31. “Plant” words in play dough

@planningplaytime/Sight word play dough activity via Instagram

Watch those reading skills grow!

32. Build words in a sensory tub

@coffeeandspitup/Sight word tub activity via Instagram

Because spelling is just more fun when your hands are covered in beans!

Learn more: @coffeeandspitup

33. Write words on a magnetic drawing board

@moffattgirls/Sight word magnetic writing via Instagram

That eraser track makes for a perfect word card holder!

Learn more: @moffattgirls

34. Or write words on the window!

@kindergarten_matters/Word writing activity via Instagram

Everyone wants a turn to write on the window!

Learn more: @kindergarten_matters

35. Shhh! Discover words written in invisible ink

@teachstarter/Invisible ink words via Instagram

Write words in white crayon and reveal them with watercolors on top!

Learn more: @teachstarter

36. Dot-paint words with a cotton swab

@sightwordactivities/Sight word painting via Instagram

Calming and effective.

Learn more: @sightwordactivities

37. “Type” words on a keyboard

@lifebetweensummers/Sight word keyboarding via Instagram

Busy day at the sight word office! Use a keyboard cover or any old keyboard.

Learn more: @lifebetweensummers

38. Read words before heading through the door

@msrowe.kinder/Sight words on doors via Instagram

The line leader can double as the word pointer during transitions.

Learn more: @ms.rowekinder

39. Read the word the teacher’s wearing!

@libblyklinnerteaching/Sight word teacher activity via Instagram

Wait, is there something on my shirt?

Learn more: @theprimarypartner

40. Take a sight word cakewalk

@joyfulinkinder/Sight word walk via Instagram

Choose a winning word when the music stops!

Learn more: @joyfulinkinder

41. Play sight word hopscotch

@wheretheliteracygrows/Sight word hop scotch via Instagram

If you can’t get outdoors, tape on the floor works just as well.

Learn more: @wheretheliteracygrows

42. Play tic-tac-toe

Boy Mama Teacher Mama/Sight word tic-tac-toe via boymamateachermama.com

I’ll be team “look.”

Learn more: Boy Mama Teacher Mama

43. Go sight word bowling

@thecreativeteacher_/Sight word bowling via Instagram

No bowling pins? Use half-filled plastic water bottles instead.

Learn more: @thecreativeteacher_

44. Ready, aim, read

@laurens_lil_learners/Sight word target via Instagram

Just throw a beanbag at a word target if foam darts are a no-go.

Learn more: @laurens_lil_learners

45. Play muffin tin ball toss

@fun_with_lynda/Sight word muffin tin activity via Instagram

Toss a ball or pom-pom into the muffin tin and read the word. It’s easy to use colored muffin cups to prep different sets of words.

Learn more: @fun_with_lynda

46. DIY sentence flash cards

@teachertipsandtales/Sentence writing via Instagram

Authentic use of words in context for the win.

Learn more: @teachertipsandtales

47. Play sight word checkers

@sightwordactivities/Sight word checkers via Instagram

King me! If kids don’t have a partner available, they can “play” with a stuffed animal and get double practice.

48. Play sight word Guess Who?

@rebekahpoeteaching/Sight word Guess Who? game via Instagram

Set up this game once and use it forever.

Learn more: @RebekahPoeTeaching

49. Sight word jars

No Time for Flash Cards/Sight word jars via notimeforflashcards.com

Students organize a big jar of letters into words and pack them into smaller jars. Or put the letters you need for each word into a jar and students pour out the letters, then spell.

Learn more: No Time for Flash Cards

50. Sight word fishing

A Teachable Teacher/Sight word fishing via ateachableteacher.com

Put paper clips on notecards with sight words written on them, and have students go fishing.

Learn more: A Teachable Teacher

51. Sight word balloon toss

No Time for Flash Cards/Sight word toss via notimeforflashcards.com

On those hot days, take students outside and write sight words on the pavement. Fill water balloons and have kids toss them at the words they read.

52. Sight words on the menu

The Kindergarten Connection/Sight word cafe via thekindergartenconnection.com

Put sight words in the pretend-play center and have students request, and then be served, sight words.

Learn more: The Kindergarten Connection

53. Sight word dominoes

No Time for Flash Cards/Sight word dominoes via notimeforflashcards.com

Create sight word dominoes out of note cards and have students play dominoes, matching sight word with sight word.

54. Sight word caterpillar

This Reading Mama/Caterpillar sight words via thisreadingmama.com

Write letters on bottle caps and have students build sight words by adding letters to the caterpillar’s body.

Learn more: This Reading Mama

55. Sight word rubbings

The OT Toolbox/Sight word rubbings via theottoolbox.com

Create raised sight words using a glue gun. When the glue is dry, students can use the cards to color over and see sight word rubbings.

Learn more: The OT Toolbox

We’d love to hear—what are your favorite sight word activities? Share in the comments below.

Want more articles like this be sure to sign up for our newsletters ..

We Are Teachers

You Might Also Like

What Are Sight Words and How Do I Teach Them?

Think of them as one of the building blocks of literacy instruction. Continue Reading

Copyright © 2024. All rights reserved. 5335 Gate Parkway, Jacksonville, FL 32256

• Skip to main content

The SJT Clubs Are Now Open! Learn More Here!

Susan Jones Teaching

Teaching Resources

How to Teach Sight Words According to the Science of Reading

Susan Jones September 7, 2021 12 Comments

This post may contain affiliate ads at no cost to you. See my disclosures for more information.

Today, I want to share 3 fun and effective activities to teach students how to read sight words. If you’ve been hearing a lot about the Science of Reading lately, you are not alone! The Science of Reading has been around for decades, but there seems to be a bit of “buzz” around it right now as teachers are closely looking at their teaching practice in the classroom.

With sight words in mind, many teachers (self-included) used to call them “snap” words and really try to skill and drill these words into our students’ minds with memorization practice! While rote memorization works for some of our students, the 3 activities I share today align with the research behind the Science of Reading and they’re meant to be simple and fun! As a teacher, you should be able to watch this video, see how to use the activities, then use them in your own classroom right away!

In case you want to watch/listen to this information, feel free to watch the video I made for YouTube below. It includes all the same content but in video format:

Alright, let’s dive on in!

One thing to consider is that for a long time, teachers thought sight words were words that couldn’t be sounded out and instead, needed to be memorized whole so students could recognize them on sight. That’s actually not true, and many sight words CAN be sound out or at the very least, have many recognizable patterns that can be sound out by students.

As David Kilpatrick shares, when a student memorizes a sight word, what they’ve actually done is memorized the sequence of letters they see in a word. A sight word can be a high-frequency word (think Dolch and Fry), but realistically a sight word is ANY word your students have come to recognize by sight! So all the activities shared below can be used for any words you want to teach your students!

1. Phoneme Mapping

The first activity I want to share for sight words is phoneme mapping. In this activity, students will map out the sounds they hear in a word and eventually add in the graphemes (letters) for each sound as well!

Remember, many of the words on our high-frequency word list actually include patterns we teach. For example, the words think, when, how, just, can.  With these regularly spelled sight words, you will want to do this process in a few steps:

First, say the word aloud, “with” and have students repeat it back.

Then, have students count out the phonemes they hear in the word /w/ /i/ and /th/ and they can hear it has 3 different sounds. I would then show students the letters (or graphemes) that represent each phoneme they hear in the sound. I like to do this using sound boxes and play-dough or counters because we can add a little multi-sensory fun into the activity. If you were using the high-frequency word, first. It would have 4 boxes and students would follow the same steps with /f/ /ir/ /s/ /t/.

Now, you might be wondering, what do we do with the irregularly spelled sight words?!

Words like said and some can still use phoneme-grapheme mapping and it is beneficial because we know that students aren’t memorizing the word as a whole, but instead, they are memorizing the sequence of letters/sounds. The word said , for example, has a regular /s/ sound and the beginning and a regular /d/ sound at the end, so we can let students see that right off the bat. The only sound they will need to memorize is the irregular /e/ sound that ai is making in the word. To help students see this sound is irregular, I like to use the heart-word strategy and put a heart around the irregular sounds.

You see all about the heart-word strategy from Really Great Reading by heading over to their blog post about it: heart word strategy for sight words . When students are looking at the high-frequency words above, they can quickly see that first is spelled regularly and they will learn all the phonics patterns they need to spell and read that word and that the word, said, has one irregular sound to memorize!

2. Teach Sight Words with a Multi-Sensory Approach

Research has shown for a long time now that students don’t all learn in just one way. Children learn best when they can use different parts of their brain through a multisensory approach and use the four learning modalities (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile).

To help you brainstorm some ideas for teaching these words with a multisensory approach would be to use something like “skywriting.” After doing an activity like phoneme-mapping above, you could have students practice skywriting the words. To do this, they would hold their arm high up in the sky and simply write out the words in the sky.

Some other ways include using these finger lights! I talk about how I love this tool in my favorite literacy tools for small group reading post, but for this students can simply wear the light and “write” the word on their desk, on the wall, or on some dark construction paper! For a really fun, albeit messy, activity, kids love tracing letters and words into some shaving cream spread out on their desk!

Now it is important to remember that as you are doing these multi-sensory activities, you are still emphasizing that sound-letter connection. You want students to be able to think about the phonemes they are hearing in each word before they start memorizing each letter.

For some other multi-sensory learning ideas, I like to use letter magnets! Now word-building with letter tiles or magnets is nothing new, but an activity I like to with letter magnets is as follows:

After I have already taught the high-frequency word, some , for example, I will show the class how it is spelled with the letter magnets. Now without them looking (have them close their eyes or turn the whiteboard around), I will either switch some letters around (soem) or remove a letter altogether (soe). Then, I ask students “what is wrong?” This gives students an opportunity to think about what they know about the word and the way it is spelled and figure out what might be wrong when they see the word spelled incorrectly.  This has students really reflecting on the order of the letters in words they will see often!

Now naturally, you will only want to do this to further progress students’ knowledge about a word so you will want to do an activity like this one after students have practiced some of the previously taught sight word activities!

Last, but certainly not least, add some songs into your sight word teaching! You can use some Jack Hartmann song or use a popular jingle (B-I-N-G-O!) and have students spell their newly learned words to that tune. Now, like the magnet activity above, I wouldn’t  start with students learning the word this way, but it’s a great way to have students practice their sight words in another fun way!

3. Compare, Sort, & Match Sight Words by Sound

The last SOR-aligned sight word activity I wanted to share today is to have students compare, sort, & match sight words by sound!

Now, to have students learn how to do this, I like to model this whole group with all my students. Here is an example of 6 words I chose from the Dolch 1st grade high-frequency word list. I chose these words because some have matching beginning, middle, and final sounds. After doing a few of the previously mentioned activities, I would ask students to take a look at the words and see if they can find any that have matching beginning sounds:

You can see above that him and had both start with /h/ and let and live both start with /l/.

I would ask students do any have the same middle sound? Him, live, and think have the /i/ sound. And lastly, both him and from end in /m/. When doing an activity like this one, I would point out one or two matches and then give students lots of think time to read the words and see if they can also find matches.

If you give students sight word cards to practice independently, having them sort and group their sight words by sounds. There is really no wrong way to have them match the words by sound as long as they’re correctly identifying the sounds they hear in each word!

Another way to have students practice matching sounds is with the game memory. Instead of students flipping their cards over to find the matching WORD (with – with). They would flip over two words with the same sounds (beginning, middle, or end).

As I am sure you may be noticing, all these activities are really trying to help students focus on the SOUNDS in each word and not just the letters. Scientifically speaking, students are better able to recognize and memorize these sight words when they are able to quickly locate and identify the grapheme-phoneme connection rather than just memorizing a series of letters or the word as a whole.

I hope this post gives you some ideas for how to teach sight words in your own classroom!

If you want to remember this post for later, pin it below:

You may also enjoy these posts...

Reader Interactions

12 comments.

November 19, 2021 at 4:46 pm

Which list of sight words do you use? We have been trying to determine if the “Science of Reading” has a different list than Fry, Dolce, or F&P.

July 27, 2022 at 2:23 am

https://www.readingrockets.org/article/new-model-teaching-high-frequency-words this Reading Rockets article organized the words in a WONDERFUL way!

November 28, 2021 at 12:51 pm

Thank you for amazing resources, love the morning messages. I would love to see more morning messages and sight words as some of my students are on alphabet yet.

February 6, 2022 at 2:29 pm

Thank you so much for sharing these activities. I can’t wait to try them out with my students.

February 6, 2022 at 2:30 pm

Thank you for explaining the theory behind teaching the words.

March 24, 2022 at 10:51 am

July 25, 2022 at 3:06 pm

Great ideas keep them coming!!

August 17, 2022 at 4:38 pm

Very informative. Thanks for sharing would love to learn more about to teaching reading to the beginners

October 9, 2022 at 10:34 pm

Excellent helpful reminders!! Thank you very much!

November 15, 2022 at 3:32 pm

I would like to know your response for a kindergarten teacher that is giving a spelling test with her 7 sight words that she has taught so far this year. She was doing this whole group. I am trying to explain that this is not age appropriate. What are your thoughts?

February 3, 2023 at 2:28 pm

I just love the play dough idea! I have a Kindergartner who loves school and has remembered and sounded out most 30+ snap words off her 40 word list. She loves to read; however, tends to get stuck blending new and unfamilar vocabulary.

February 7, 2023 at 7:26 pm

HI! Thanks for sharing your ideas. I just have a question about mapping think. When you stretched the word think, you said /i/ for the I in think. However, the i represents the phoneme /e/ in the word think. You don’t say thin with a /k/ at the end. My question then, is would you heart the I in think? Thanks.

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed .

Free CVC Word Mapping Mats

Sign up for my free email newsletter and receive these free CVC Word Mapping Mats to help with your next lesson plan!

Hot in the shop!

Whether it’s writing, math, or literacy resources you’re looking for...we’ve got you covered over in the shop.

Number Sense Activities (0-20)

All About Me Activities for Back to School

Math Games for 1st Grade: Print, Play, LEARN!

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons For The Year | Distance Learning

Decodable Phonics Comprehension Passages (BUNDLE) | DIGITAL & PRINTABLE

Blending Cards for a Phonics Blending Drill

Sentence Writing Activities & Lessons: PRINTABLE & DIGITAL (Seesaw & Google)

Hello Friends!

Welcome to Susan Jones Teaching. When it comes to the primary grades, learning *All Things* in the K-2 world has been my passion for many years! I just finished my M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction and love sharing all the latest and greatest strategies I learn with you through this blog and my YouTube channel! I hope you'll enjoy learning along with me :)

More About Me

Free Sight word worksheets  get your students to recognise, read, and write tricky words. Help students become fluent readers by starting off strong with fun and engaging sight word games and worksheets. Use these sight word worksheets pdf free ideas to build vocabulary too.

Sight word printable worksheets are the number one way to help students learn common words and common high frequency words.

This is a growing collection of  Free Sight word worksheets , designed for ages approximately between 4 & 6 years old. You can also browse through our preschool printables and toddler printables.

Sight word practice worksheets for kindergarten

Repetition and practice are key to build proper sight word recognition skills. Kids learn to read, write and spell their sight words by exposure.

These fun Free Sight Word Worksheets include so many ways in which you could incorporate sight word practice in your class or homeschool.

This post contains affiliate links.

Best Sight Word Learning Tools

These resources are excellent tools for promoting early literacy skills, specifically focusing on sight word recognition and reading fluency for young learners.

• SWAT A SIGHT WORD GAME: Build reading, spelling…
• GAMES FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS: The sight-word…
• EASY & FUN WAY TO LEARN SIGHT WORDS:: After one of…

• Notebooks, Smart Kids (Author)
• English (Publication Language)
• 112 Pages – 05/22/2020 (Publication Date) -…

• Painless Learning: Our 300 double-sided…
• Layered Learning: Layered learning is a scientific…
• Convenient for Teaching and Learning: The…

The “ Active Minds Sight Words Magnets ” provide a hands-on and interactive way for children ages 5 and up to learn and practice sight words, which are essential for building language and reading proficiency.

The “ Sight Word Readers Parent Pack ” and “ Sight Word Stories: Guided Reading Level A” offer engaging and leveled books that teach the first 50 sight words, allowing new readers to gain confidence and mastery over these foundational words.

These resources are designed to make learning sight words fun and accessible, enabling children to develop crucial reading skills that will support their academic success and love for reading.

What are sight words?

Sight words are the most common words in the English language. They are often taught to children in kindergarten, elementary school, and even sometimes in high school.

Sight words are important because they have a high frequency of use in everyday life.

They can be used to teach children how to read and write more quickly.

And they can also be used as a list of words to help people improve their reading comprehension skills.

Sight Word Manipulatives for Class

These resources provide engaging and effective ways to support early literacy and language development in young children.

The “ Word Pop CVC Words ” offers a multisensory approach to learning to read, focusing on CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words ideal for pre-kindergarten through 1st grade.

This tool helps children build foundational phonics skills necessary for reading fluency. The “ Educational Insights Sentence Building Dominoes ” is a hands-on manipulative set that encourages children to construct sentences using colorful dominoes, enhancing grammar and language structure understanding.

Additionally, the “ Colorations Alphabet Dough Stampers Set ” provides a fun and tactile way for toddlers to learn uppercase letters through stamping activities, fostering early literacy and fine motor skills development.

Together, these resources offer a well-rounded approach to supporting children’s language acquisition and literacy skills both at home and in the classroom.

Are high frequency words the same as sight words?

Sight words are the most common words in written English. They are often the first words that children learn to read and write.

Sight words are typically considered high-frequency word, which means they appear more often in text than other words.

Sight words can be difficult for children to learn because they do not follow a predictable pattern of letter combinations that is found in most English language texts.

Here’s a list of hands-on free sight word worksheets to get even the most reluctant kids reading, writing and spelling their sight words!

They have been tested in the classroom and to motivate your kids to learn their sight words.

Click the blue links to get your copy of some fun printable sight word games and activities. We will add printable games and activities often so keep this page bookmarked and come back often!

Free Sight Word Worksheets

Teachers can prepare these activity sheets very quickly and easily. You only need to print, then leave!

The addition of these worksheets to your morning work routine, literacy instruction, or private practise sessions is ideal. Additionally, they adhere to the same guidelines for each term, ensuring that kids always know what to do.

Sight Word Sentence Worksheets

Help students  read and understand their sight words  by using these fun and engaging  high frequency words posters . They can be used in so many ways, place each  High Frequency Words Poster  in small groups and have the kids read and work on the word mats.

These High Frequency Sight Word Sentence Posters do just that. An added bonus in these include printable worksheets to read, trace and color their posters.

Christmas Sight Word Worksheets

These printable Christmas Sight Word Games are almost NO PREP! Kids will read the word on the ‘Christmas tree card’ and then find the word on the printable, trace it and then colour the ornament on the tree.

Christmas Free Sight Word Worksheets. Looking for some fun seasonal worksheets? Kids will read, identify the sight word and trace it on the Christmas tree.

Dot Marker Sight Word Worksheets

Dot Marker Reading Sight Words for ESL Students – Fun FREE Dab a Dot Worksheet. These worksheets are perfect for ESL students.

Cut and paste sight words for kindergarten

Sight Word Build a Burger Word Differentiation activities . These sight word cut and paste activities will engage and motivate your kids as they build ‘burgers’ by identifying the identical sight words on each part, cutting and pasting it on their worksheets.

Sight Word Reading Tracking Sentences PDF

Struggling to find engaging ways to track your child’s sight word progress? Look no further! This printable activity pack offers a free downloadable PDF packed with sight word reading tracking sentences .

Inside, you’ll discover:

• Simple, engaging sentences featuring high-frequency sight words.
• Multiple difficulty levels to match your child’s learning stage.
• A user-friendly tracking sheet to monitor progress over time.

Kindergarten sight words

There are so many different ways to learn letters of the sight words.

If you want to encourage kindergarten kids to learn their sight words in a fun way, here is a list of super fun printable activities to add to your planning.

These printables include fry sight words, Dolch sight word list up to second grade level.

If you prefer to navigate the posts in a list, here they are right here.

These kindergarten sight word worksheets are fun activities to add to your English language lesson planning or mainstream teaching.

Some of these activities can be used as flash cards, adding important words with different activities like a word search, or sight word practice pages, these would be certain to help develop more literacy skills.

Sight Word Practice Pages

When you want to practice sight words with an early reader, adding a fun worksheet like a mystery puzzle within a literacy center will make all the difference! The little learner will respond to these activities with such enthusiasm.

Halloween Free Sight Word Worksheets

Grab these super fun sight word tracing printables to get students working on their sight word reading and letter tracing skills in one activity. This is a Halloween themed resource!

Laminate these mats and use them with kids in preschool by getting the students to highlight or cover the word instead of trace over it.

Having a sight word game on hand, like one with missing letters would also help entice children to learn more sight words.

Look no further, these super cute printables are easy to use and practically no prep perfect for preschoolers and kinders.

Owl Free Sight Word Worksheets These  Owl Free Sight Word Worksheets  are the easiest way to engage and encourage kids to practice reading and recognising their sight words!

Grab these fun and free 10 printables to teach Sight Words for ESL students .

3 of the best common core kindergarten sight word activities from this post here, pick up these cut picture puzzles:

Winter Sight Word Worksheets

Winter Free Sight Word Activities . These Hands-on  Winter Free Sight Word Worksheets  will engage ALL your kids no matter their level.

They will read, search for and trace the matching sight word all with a fun hot cocoa theme!

Sight Word Playdough Worksheets

Sight Word Dough Mats Need a fun, tactile and engaging method to help little learners develop reading their sight words?

These  Sight Word Play Dough Mats  will do just that!

Kids will work on building each letter in their sight word, tracing and reading the sight word in context and writing the word independently all on one dry erase mat!

Sight Word Readers Interactive Tab Books.  Are you looking for some new sight word readers?

These activity booklets include sight word fluency intervention that is FUN for kids! Each booklet includes activities to get the students reading, tracing, and finally writing the word independently.

Sight Words Worksheets PDF free

Of course, it all depends on reading skills, so use the activity printables for sight words that your kindergarten students can complete.

Sight Word Cut and Paste Worksheets

Sight Word cut and paste worksheets are perfect for when you need quick printables and activities to help your students learn sight word reading fluency.

Penguin Sight Word Spin and Color

Free Sight Word Spin Read and Color Penguin Themed Blog Post: looking for some new ways to to get students reading their sight words? These fun printable pages offer some variety in their daily sight word practice!

They spin the words on the penguin using a paper clip and a pencil and then read the word the clip is pointing to, they finally color the word.

Because differences are our greatest strength

Sight words: An evidence-based literacy strategy

By Cheryl Lyon, MAT

Expert reviewed by Allison Posey, MEd, CAST, Inc.

What you’ll learn

Watch: sound-letter mapping for sight words, read: how to use this three-part strategy, understand: why this sight words strategy works, connect: link school to home, research behind this strategy.

Sight words are words that students are expected to recognize instantly. With the right support, students can become so familiar with these words that they no longer need to pause and try to decode them. Some sight words are regularly spelled words, and some are spelled irregularly .

You may hear other educators use the term high-frequency words . These are words that appear very often in what students read. It’s especially important for these frequently used words to become sight words. Students can read with better fluency when they recognize these words right away.

By explicitly teaching sight words, you can help cement the words into students’ memories. Use this three-part strategy, which starts with sound-letter mapping, then moves to a flashcard activity, and ends with other ways to keep reinforcing the sight words with repeated exposure.

Watch this video from Literacy How of a teacher using sound-letter mapping to teach her students the high-frequency word lit . 

Objective:  Students will increase the number of sight words they can recognize instantly without decoding. 

Grade levels (with standards): 

K (Common Core Literacy RF.K.2: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words; RF.K.3.C: Read common high-frequency words by sight)

1 (Common Core Literacy RF.1.3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words; RF.1.3.G: Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words)

2–5 (Common Core Literacy RF.2.3, RF.3.3, RF.4.3.A, and RF.5.3.A: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words)

Best used for instruction with:

Whole class

Small groups

Individuals

How to prepare: 

Choose words to teach. Assess how well your students recognize sight words using a simple pre-test. For example, you can have students read grade-level words from Dolch or Fry word lists . Then, make a list of the 25 words your students missed most often. Divide the list into groups of five words to teach each day. (You can adjust the number of words based on your students’ needs.)

Plan daily practice. Allow about 10 minutes each day for direct instruction and practice with sight words.

Prepare materials. On the board, draw sound boxes (a long rectangle divided into two, three, or four squares, depending on the number of sounds in the words you plan to teach). Give students a matching handout of the sound boxes, such as this printable of Elkonin sound boxes .

How to teach: 

1. Start with sound-letter mapping. This practice helps students connect the sounds and letters in words together. 

Choose one of the five words you want to teach. Tell the students they’ll be spelling the word. (Example: with. ) Invite them to repeat the word. Then ask, “How many sounds do you hear in with ?” Hold up one finger per sound as your students say the sounds: /w/ /i/ /th/. Say the sounds with the students to help them identify individual sounds.

On the board, write in the sound boxes the letter or letters that correspond to each sound — one sound per box. Then read the word together. 

Students can write the letters on their handout. Or you can give your students small manipulatives (like coins or bingo chips). Have students move one manipulative into a box for each sound. Then, when it’s time to write the corresponding letter or letters in each box, students can move the manipulatives out of the way to write the letter(s).

Repeat the sound-letter mapping with each of the five sight words.

2. Practice the words with one of the flashcard activities below. Both involve waiting a set amount of time between showing a card and asking students to say the word(s) on the card.

Constant time delay: Use this flashcard activity to give your students repeated exposure to their five words. Write one word on each card.

In round one, show and read the words one at a time to students. Wait three seconds to give students time to look at each word’s letters and patterns. Then ask them to repeat the word. 

In round two, shuffle the cards and show one card at a time. Wait three seconds and then ask students to read the word. If students read the word incorrectly or aren’t able to read it, point out a memorable feature. For example, “Notice the -ed at the end of used .” Wait three seconds and ask students to try the word again. Go through the stack of cards until students correctly identify each word at least twice.

Constant time delay for words with unusual spellings: Use this activity for word sets (or “word families”) that share a pattern but that don’t have typical letter-sound combinations (like could , should , and would) . You can use a resource like Phinder to look for words based on letter patterns.

Write all the words from a word set in a vertical column on a card. Show students the card and ask them to identify how each word ends. After students respond correctly, point to and say each word on the card. Wait three seconds and then ask students to say the words. 

If you’re practicing words from different word sets, be sure to write the different sets on different cards. Shuffle the cards and have students read through each word set.

Teaching tip: If you’re introducing these sight word activities for the first time, make sure to explicitly teach the activity and offer guided practice. If students are familiar with an activity, provide a quick model.

3. Continue to reinforce the sight words with repeated exposure, no matter which activity you choose. You can do this by reading texts — from books to posters to comics — that contain the sight words. You can also use word walls or word banks to help students keep track of the words they’ve learned. Once you notice that students can consistently recognize the words by sight, add them to your regular word games and activities. 

When you use this strategy, you’re teaching a skill called orthographic mapping. It’s a process we use to store printed words in our long-term memory. Orthographic mapping is essential for learning sight words.

Here’s what happens when we use orthographic mapping: When we see a word, we break it apart by the sounds we hear in the word (phonemes) and the letter and letter patterns (graphemes) that correspond to those sounds. This process fixes the word into our long-term memory. Eventually, we recognize the word immediately when we see it. We still see all the letters, but we know the word so well that we don’t have to sound it out. 

Research shows that most readers need between one and four exposures to a word to commit it to long-term memory. Struggling readers need even more exposure to new words because orthographic mapping can be hard. Repeated practice with sight words gives students the exposure they need to build their sight word vocabulary.

Teaching tip: For English language learners, including a word’s meaning during instruction can help with reading and language development. Try using hand gestures as you teach word meanings.

Share this article with families to help them understand what sight words are and why they’re important. You can also send home this list of 12 ways for families to help kids practice sight words at home.

“Word boxes improve phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondences, and spelling skills of at-risk kindergartners,” from  Remedial and Special Education

“Teaching sight words as a part of comprehensive reading instruction,” from the Iowa Reading Research Center

Explore related topics

A Simple System for Teaching and Tracking Sight Words

Browse Sight Word Lessons & Resources:

View lessons.

Access 67+ sight word lessons for whole-group or individualized instruction/intervention.

Give an Assessment

Easily assess sight word mastery using our assessment slideshows, then assign needed lessons!

Print Resources

Print fluency builders, student trackers, parent information pages, and more!

Create Flashcards

Use the simple point-and-click tool to instantly create customized flashcards.

Become an Expert

Learn more about S ight Word Tools :

• Read system rationale
• See list compilations

Get Factivated!

Build fluency with sight words AND Math facts!  Visit Factivation.com to see how to get your students FULLY FACTIVATED!

Coming Soon!

The interactive Wordfinder tool is coming soon.  Students see, say, write, and read (in context) assigned sight words! See a preview here !

Filter Results

• clear all filters

Resource Type

• Guided Lessons
• Lesson Plans
• Hands-on Activities
• Interactive Stories
• Online Exercises
•  Printable Workbooks
• Science Projects
• Song Videos

middle-school

•  Fine arts
•  Math
•  Reading
•  Writing
•  Phonics
•  Sight Words
• High Frequency Words
• Irregularly Spelled Words
• Spelling Tools
• Spelling Strategies
• Spelling Patterns
•  Language and Vocabulary
•  Grammar and Mechanics
•  Science
•  Social emotional
•  Social studies
•  Arts & crafts
•  Offline games
•  Common Core

Printable Sight Word Workbooks

Addition (Basic)

Addition (Multi-Digit)

Algebra & Pre-Algebra

Comparing Numbers

Daily Math Review

Division (Basic)

Division (Long Division)

Hundreds Charts

Measurement

Multiplication (Basic)

Multiplication (Multi-Digit)

Order of Operations

Place Value

Probability

Skip Counting

Subtraction

Telling Time

Word Problems (Daily)

More Math Worksheets

Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension Gr. 1

Reading Comprehension Gr. 2

Reading Comprehension Gr. 3

Reading Comprehension Gr. 4

Reading Comprehension Gr. 5

Reading Comprehension Gr. 6

Reading & Writing

Reading Worksheets

Cause & Effect

Fact & Opinion

Fix the Sentences

Graphic Organizers

Synonyms & Antonyms

Writing Prompts

Writing Story Pictures

Writing Worksheets

More ELA Worksheets

Consonant Sounds

Vowel Sounds

Consonant Blends

Consonant Digraphs

Word Families

More Phonics Worksheets

Early Literacy

Build Sentences

Sight Word Units

Sight Words (Individual)

More Early Literacy

Punctuation

Subjects and Predicates

More Grammar Worksheets

Spelling Lists

Spelling Grade 1

Spelling Grade 2

Spelling Grade 3

Spelling Grade 4

Spelling Grade 5

Spelling Grade 6

More Spelling Worksheets

Chapter Books

Charlotte's Web

Magic Tree House #1

Boxcar Children

More Literacy Units

Animal (Vertebrate) Groups

Butterfly Life Cycle

Electricity

Matter (Solid, Liquid, Gas)

Simple Machines

Space - Solar System

More Science Worksheets

Social Studies

Maps (Geography)

Maps (Map Skills)

More Social Studies

Mother's Day

Father's Day

More Holiday Worksheets

Puzzles & Brain Teasers

Brain Teasers

Logic:  Addition Squares

Mystery Graph Pictures

Number Detective

Lost in the USA

More Thinking Puzzles

Teacher Helpers

Teaching Tools

Award Certificates

More Teacher Helpers

Pre-K and Kindergarten

Alphabet (ABCs)

Numbers and Counting

Shapes (Basic)

More Kindergarten

Worksheet Generator

Word Search Generator

Multiple Choice Generator

Fill-in-the-Blanks Generator

More Generator Tools

Full Website Index

Sight Word: to

To be or not to be... a great reader! Our worksheets are designed to help young learners recognize and write this basic word easily.

Logged in members can use the Super Teacher Worksheets filing cabinet to save their favorite worksheets.

Quickly access your most used files AND your custom generated worksheets!

Please login to your account or become a member and join our community today to utilize this helpful feature.

Check out our weekly sight word units, with printable worksheets and assessment materials.

We have worksheets for over 150 different sight words.

Sample Worksheet Images

PDF with answer key:

PDF no answer key: