free printable kindergarten sight word list

On days that I finish teaching a particular list, I do the sight word checklist. (On Fridays I like to pass out Skittles, M&M’s, or Dojo points for a sight word spelled correctly!) Thursday: Play a sight word board game or a printable sight word gameįriday: Have students use dry erase markers to practice writing the new words and any words previously learned. Wednesday: Play a memory or matching game with only the words learned so far (I like to use sensory bins here!) Tuesday: I ntroduce word 2 and repeat steps from Monday

Monday: I ntroduce word 1, talk about the letters in the word, how to say it, spell it, and identify it with a foldable book they can take home to their parents to show them the new word. Here’s a little snapshot of what it looks like:Ģ sight words per week, introduced in small groups during literacy centers, starting with List 1 I created 7 lists, of 9 kindergarten sight words each, and made it a schedule for the week, which helps the students and parents tremendously since they know what to expect. If they still need time to learn letters and sounds, I’d focus on that first!) (I would make sure your students have a good understanding of letter identification before moving on to sight words. I started by choosing the words I wanted to use and ordering them from the least difficult to the most difficult, while still making sure they were appropriate for kindergarten. After seeing how much my students improved, I wanted to share it with all the other struggling kindergarten teachers out there! Let’s get to it! I Googled so many sight word lists and ideas and finally created a system that worked for me and my class. (hello first year teacher problems!)įast forward to my third year of teaching, I knew I had to fix something. Every time I gave a sight word assessment, I panicked because I had no clue if I was “doing it right”. We didn’t really have a way to “teach” the students sight words, it was just a list of words my kids were expected to know by the end of the year.

On a daily basis, spend a few minutes going over a certain list of sight words.When I first started teaching kindergarten, I remember sight words were a beast I was not ready to tackle.Place sight words into the 4 lists and use this DocIt Index Card Holder to store them.Cut out all the index cards with scissors or a paper cutter.Print out all pages of the printable on PrintWorks white card stock.Each word is listed on a fun pencil-themed index card.

To make it less overwhelming for your little student, I have the words broken down into four lists of twenty-five words each. This list of 100 Kindergarten Sight Words comes straight from a Kindergarten teacher and are common words that your child should learn.Ī, all, am, and, are, as, at, away, be, because, big, black, blue, brown, but, by, can, came, come, could, day, do, eat, eight, first, five, for, four, from, get, go, got, green, has, have, he, her, here, him, his, I, in, is, it, jump, like, little, look, love, me, my, new, nine, no, not, of, off, on, one, out, pink, play, purple, red, run, said, saw, see, seven, she, six, so, ten, that, the, then, there, they, this, three, to, too, two, up, us, want, was, we, went, what, when, where, white, who, why, with, yellow, yes, you, your Once kids master these sight words, reading comes much easier and faster. Sight words are used frequently in reading and students are taught to memorize sight words by, you guessed it, sight. Sight words are words that don’t always follow English phonic rules or the rules of spelling.

Free printable kindergarten sight word list