Free Printable Sight Words Worksheets

Browse our Free printable Sight words worksheets. Sight words are also called high-frequency sight words. It is a list of words that small kids are prompted to recognize without using any decoding strategy. Several sight word lists are in use. Parents must ensure that they use this tool in teaching kids to read.

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TYPES OF SIGHT WORD LIST

  1. Dolch sight word list – Prepared by Dr. Edward William Dolch, this list has been prepared after reading some children’s books. Several free Dolch sight words worksheets PDFs can be downloaded as knowing Dolch sight word list makes reading easier.
  2. Top 150 Written Words – The list contains 150 words and is recommended by a Professor from Yale University.
  3. Fry sight words – This list mainly contains 3RD-grade sight words and sight words for 4th graders besides having sight words for 5th to 9th gradeThere are 1000 fry words that a child knows will allow them to read around 90% of words in a book.
  4. Pre-K sight words – This includes kindergarten sight word worksheets, and some kindergarten sight words are – a, am, can, in, like, my, no, go, and, are, for, he, here, see, play, the, she, said, etc.

U words for kids are not found much, as a result of which various educators have curated separate u sight words. Both pre-schoolers and kindergarten kids can use the sight word worksheets. 

Some U words for kids are – Us, undo, up, use, upset, unit, uncle, upper, etc.

BENEFITS OF SIGHT WORDS 

Parents and teachers should keep themselves equipped with sight word worksheets. These are very beneficial for kids –

  1. Sight words increase the speed of reading.
  2. Practicing sight word worksheets daily shapes fluency.
  3. Speed and fluency, in turn, enhance comprehension.
  4. It lays the foundation for building a solid vocabulary.

Some research conducted pointed out some drawbacks of the sight word.

These are –

  1. A sight word list is long, and therefore, memorizing these is an uphill task. It has been estimated that around 35 trials are required per word.
  2. Mentors who use sight word lists and focus less on phonics instruction make it challenging to inculcate a word-recognition knack that is needed throughout an individual’s lifespan.