250+ Sight Words for First Graders That Kids Can Easily Learn

Every parent dream of seeing their child reading fluently and accurately. How do they initiate this reading journey in a child? Does the child memorize or just say the words? What are the correct words do we teach? These are a few of the worries they go through, but teaching children to read, the journey generally begins in kindergarten.

The "sight words" or sight vocabulary help children to read by sight (Look – See, See- Say) before they learn phonemes, blends, or phonic sounds. Sight words are common and easy words that kids understand easily.

According to D.J. Kear and M.A. Galdart's study of High–frequency words in printed materials prove that "75% of words used in children's printed materials comprise sight words." Sight words are categorised according to each grade level.

Here is a list of 250+ Sight words for First Graders that children can learn efficiently.

Common 100 sight words for first graders

Go	a	Two	How	He	Upon	Was	Get	Small	Us
Jump	About	Once	Often	I	Its	Away	Look	High	We
Like	They	Day	Little	Also	They	back	See	Big	what
You	Every	Allow	Goes	Almost	Them	Will	An	had	Has
Are	One	Why	Does	Use	Went	Any	Off	him	have
Up	If	Every	At	Dry	Were	Around	Where	wish	Sit
Down	Can	We	The	Is	Ask	But	Long	with	Sing
And	Be	Went	She	It	Said	Even	Things	Work	Play
each	should	well	who	whom	tell	again	short	Time	before

Two Popular Sight words list

Dolche sight words

Dr. William Edward Dolch, an educator, studied numerous children's books during his time and created a list of 220 service words, of which 95 words are common nouns. As per his study, these words frequently appear in children’s books. The children should know and say the words immediately when they see them. They don't have to sound them. Between 1930 and 1940, he created an essential word list for pre-kindergarten to 3rd grade to enhance reading fluency in young learners. Dr Dolch also published a book in 1948, "Problems in Reading".

Old	out	them	how	that	last	give	Came	than	find
About	also	an	why	along	come	walk	finish	by	enter
did	Think	allow	dance	this	same	May	So	Would	fun
Open	Tell	ok	my	over	first	Laugh	Yet	Will	Always
Thank	Close	please	should	in	Play	From	Just	Follow	Round
Ask	Said	could	hold	me	Then	Again	After	Fill	Pick
Fly	Up	slow	time	who	Inside	Stop	Joy	Shut	where
Put	Under	little	see	hide	new	Still	Before	Cute	Place
take	still	those	these	going	door	Let	Name	Goes	Whose
Do	help	hand	hear	some	since	sleep	send	hold	fall

Fry Sight Words

It is another set of sight words list created by Dr. Edward B. Fry. The list has 1000 words and is split into ten groups. These groups are further categorised into common words and help children read more words.

Mine	Get	Arrange	Plain	Hot
sort	Oil	Fill	Let	Seek
made	apply	Fold	Live	Soon
Further	Ours	Fix	Went	late
fresh	Whole	Frost	cool	Wild
got	Give	Hole	Cry	Sad
Song	Lay	File	Gave	Felt
Spell	Cut	Spill	Happy	Pull
Speak	click	Push	List	love

Learning sight words

Sight words help build reading proficiency not only for young children but are also resourceful for foreign language learners or for those learning English as a second language ESL. It's important to focus on a few sight words at the beginning. Revising and repeating the sight words further instil confidence among young learners.

Easy games to teach Sight Words

Word of the day

Pick a word and write it down on a whiteboard or paper. Keep making a variety of sentences using that word the entire day.

Sight word book

Encourage your child to collect sight word cuttings from newspapers, magazines, etc and paste them into the newly created sight book.

Sight Words board

Create a sight word board with columns and rows. With the help of dice, play a roll, read, and move the pawns with the kids. Children can move their pawns according to the dice roll.

Bingo

Create bingo cards with sight words. Call the sight words, and children can check and cut them on their bingo cards.

Read story

Read a story aloud and tell children to raise their hands when they hear particular sight words.

Sight words Example Sentences

She is a big girl.
I go by bus.
This is a pen.
A big red balloon.
He plays with a ball.
I am sad.
I can eat ice cream.
You are right.
Sam is my friend.
I go to school.

Few books recommendation

Dr Suess's all books like The Cat in the Hat

Bill Martin Jr by Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?

Oliver Jeffers by Once Upon an Alphabet

Jon Klassen by I want my Hat back

Bambinos.Live Experts recommended sight words

yellow	Strong	Live	Only	Land	Hit	Bring
Hello	Eat	Weak	Ever	Mark	Peak	Drop
happy	Blue	Thin	Power	Cross	Chew	Dare
joy	Lunch	Learn	Skip	Plus	Red	Mouse
Wise	Sad	Words	Dinner	Breakfast	Bright	Hen
Purple	Fool	day	White	Food	Boring	Silver
simple	enjoy	Later	already	meals	boil	nose
Mouth	Lion	Brown	eyes	Told	ears	more
tiger	leg	gold	till	mean	main	Mix
Chop	Chill	Pain	Green	Hang	head	Press
Cat	fix	Dog	grow	Black	Grass	cow

Conclusion

The learning journey for young children becomes exciting and memorable when it's loaded with fun and games. A child can achieve its fullest potential when we integrate suggested measures in their learning journey.

FAQ

Q:. How do sight words benefit in reading?

Ans:. Sight words are short and easy words that impact reading fluency, comprehension, and language proficiency.

Q:. Are sight words and phonics similar?

Ans:. Sight words promote instant recognition of words for reading fluency and comprehension, whereas phonics helps in decoding words with the help of sound-letter relationships.

Q:. How many sight words should a first grader know?

Ans:. As per many experts, children must learn at least 100 sight words at the end of first grade.

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