Sight words worksheets — read, trace, write, find

A small set of words — the, and, is, said, they — makes up about half of everything children read. Many are hard to sound out, so readers learn to recognise them “by sight”. Each row on these sheets practises one word four ways: read it, trace it, write it from memory, then find it among similar words. The English lists follow the well-known Dolch lists, and the other languages use their own most frequent words: mots-outils in French, palabras frecuentes in Spanish and common words in Arabic.

👀 Best for ages 4–8

How to get the most from these sheets

• Read each word aloud together before tracing.
• Cover the first column when your child writes the word, so it comes from memory.
• Hunt for the week’s words in a picture book.
• Do one sheet a day for a week, then move up a level.

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