Sight Word Worksheets

The are a collection of words that students just have to have rote memorized. A super skill for students that are working on their reading readiness. This will serve them well as they begin to read sentences and eventually full paragraphs. Many teachers will often use the term "sight words" and expect everyone to instantly know what they are speaking about. There are a number of words in the English language that are renegades. They don't follow basic spelling rules or have an overwhelming number of syllables. These are words that you will need to memorize because they break from the paradigm of decoding. We commonly see two different standard list of these terms. The Dolch sight word list was created by Doctor Edward Dolch in the early forties. Dr. Edward Fry created the his own Fry list that expanded to higher grade levels. These worksheets will actively use all of these different terms in various helpful and educational activities.


Worksheets Topics to Explore

Dolch Grade 1 List - The standard form contains just over forty terms at this grade level.

Dolch Preprimer List - This is first collection of words students should begin with. These terms are seriously common in just about all forms of writing composition.

Dolch Primer List - This is the most sizeable collection of terms in the entire series. There are just over fifty words in all.

Fry's List - Dr. Fry took the Dolch list in the 1950s and greatly expanded it to help produce many modern reading programs.

Patterned and Irregular Word Spelling - This is the natural progression after working on and mastering these terms.

Reading High Frequency Words By Sight - We work with younger students here to find the right mix of memory versus other study tactics.

What are Sight Words?


Sight words are those terms that are most commonly found in almost all the written texts. These are the words that appear almost on every page of the written text. Language learners are encouraged to learn these terms so that they are able to recognize them whenever they catch the sight of them in the text. If the students learn sight words by heart, they can identify them within three seconds and make sense of them. Sight words are high-frequency terms because they are frequently used in just about any form of text you come across both in print and digital form. You cannot even escape them on social media, well at least from those that follow proper grammar. There are more than 100 sight words in the English language but few are written below.


List of 50 Sight Words


At, and, all, about, after, his, had, however, has, her, have, him, if, into, is, it, be, by, but, this, there, them, then, these, two, time, than, that, their, was, with, what, were, when, we, which, will, would, words, where, water, who, way said, she, some, so, see, only, on.


Importance of Sight Words


The basic and most important reason behind the learning of sight words is to make the student a fluent reader. They are also termed as lollipop words amd are the basic units of any text. If students take too much time to recognize them then he or she will fail to read the text fluently. Inability to read the text will lead to difficult or impossible comprehension of the text. If the student is unable to read the text, then there it is almost impossible for a student to understand what is written in the book. Memorization of these sight words helps students to decode the text and develop a sense of fluency with the language in both spoken and written form.


Moreover, learning of sight words helps the students to enhance their memorization skills. These terms will help students to increase their memory so that they can build a habit of keeping more words in mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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