Sight words are so important in English. They give students some of the most common words and enable them to start to communicate. We have created these sets of sight words worksheets for use in homes and classrooms for free.
Many sight words are also high frequency / common words and although they do not follow, at least always follow, phonics or other English spelling rules they are still very important to learn. Especially during the formative years of English instruction.
We have both these and a set of sight word spelling worksheets on the site for free. We will link the sight word spelling worksheets at the section at the end. But below on the green links you can find the sight word worksheets pictured here.
These Sight word worksheets are designed to help students practice and become familiar with the most common sight words. The majority of these do not have phonetic rules to refer to and have to be committed to memory by students. These Sight word worksheets aim to help achieve this.
What Are Sight Words?
Sight words are highly frequent common words in English that do not follow Phonetic or spelling conventions that the majority of English words do. They are often used more frequently and have to be learned by sight, hence their name: Sight words.
Teaching these can be tricky and although there are many ways, we have full teaching details and methods in the article listed below for your reference.
However we have also designed both a spelling quiz solely for sight words and a set of worksheets ( 10 per set) for younger learners to start to become familiar with these tricky but useful words.
Sight Words Worksheets
These sight word worksheets cover the most common sight words, and will be added to over time, however there are 60 options here already. There are multiple tasks on each worksheet to cater from differentiated learning.
You can download the sight words worksheets from the green links above and below,
We have a huge amount of both free and premium resources on the site, including workbooks, bundles, activities and games. Feel free to browse around for something useful for your students or children. We have highlight some of our workbooks below.
Other Sight Word Resources.
Below is the link for our set of spelling sight word worksheets which work as an accompaniment for these and for more advanced students.
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