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Sight Word Worksheets
Sight words are the common words a child should read at once, without stopping to sound them out. Most of them can be sounded out and only need practice. A few, the heart words, have one part to learn by heart: said, was, they. These pages are for Kindergarten and Grades 1, 2 and 3.
The first three pages of every set are free PDFs, open to everyone. The rest of each set, and an answer key for every page, are included with All Access.
Kindergarten sight word worksheets
- Sight Words Free PDF Sight words are common words a child should recognize instantly. In Kindergarten the words are the first few a child meets, such as I, is, the, a and to. Word cards mark the part to learn by heart, and a heart-word page has the child find the word, build it and read it in a sentence.
1st Grade sight word worksheets
- Phonics & Sight Words Free PDF Most words can be sounded out. A few, called heart words, hold one part that has to be learned by heart: said, was, what, they.
- Sight Words Free PDF Sight words are common words a child should recognize instantly. In Grade 1 the list grows to words such as she, this, said, so and be, on word cards and on heart-word pages that mark the tricky part of each word.
2nd Grade sight word worksheets
- Sight Words Free PDF Sight words are common words a child should recognize instantly. In Grade 2 the set is word cards only, four words to a page, with longer words such as look, think, many, found and going.
3rd Grade sight word worksheets
- Phonics & Sight Words Free PDF By Grade 3 the words to learn by heart are longer: question, answer, people, enough, through.
How to use these pages
- Sound out what can be sounded out. In said, the s and the d say what they always say; only the middle has to be learned by heart.
- A few words read every day do more than a long list once a week.
- The Phonics & Sight Words sets put heart words beside words that are sounded out, so the child learns to tell the two kinds apart.
How sight words are taught, step by step: Sight Words →
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. See every program →