Was sight word page

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for me to share another set of sight word booklets! Today’s sight word is “was” and I have three printable booklets to share with you. One of the booklets is in black and white, to make it easier for printing or to use for coloring.


sight word reader - was


In this download, there are these 3 booklets:

  • The Weather
  • His Feelings
  • Movement

Each of these sight word readers focus on the word “was”. They also use words that were learned in previous sight word readers. The child can also use the pictures to help them read the sentences. You may have to help them with words that are not sight words. Encourage your child to sound out words, if they can!

You can download the FREE sight word readers here —> Sight Word Reader- was

Find all the sight word readers in my collection HERE.


Free Sight Word Readers


Print pages 2-13 on paper. (Page 1 is my Terms of Use.) You can also print the pages front and back. If you have troubles printing, make sure Adobe is up to date. You can download the most current version here.

If you want to print these without color, make sure to select “print in greyscale” on the print menu.

After printing, cut out the pages and staple them together. Enjoy reading with your little one!!

Today I am sharing a set of free was sight words worksheet that are both low prep and hands on. These sight words worksheets that I share were all originally made for my kindergarten daughter. If at any time you want to grab the other free sight words in this series, simply click Kindergarten Sight Words Worksheets and Resources.

These free was sight words worksheets are perfect if you are looking for a quick low prep activity for your kindergartner. 

Sight Words Resources You May Want to Have on Hand

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What’s Inside the free WAS sight words worksheets

Inside the WAS free sight words worksheets, you will find pages dedicated to developing fine motor skills as well as one to one correspondence.

If you are working on sight words for preschool? Try these free sight word worksheets for 'was'

  • Sight word flash cards
  • Stamp the Sight Word
  • Paint the sight word
  • Place stickers on the sight word
  • Say, Build and Stamp the Sight Word
  • Trace the sight word
  • Dot the sight word
  • Find the sight word

Sight Words Tips

    1. In the event that you want your child to reuse these sheets, simply laminate them and use dry erase markers of crayons. For example, if you want your child to work on writing the sight word then you can do one of two things. Option 1-  laminate the sheet and have them use a dry erase marker or crayon. Option 2- simply slip the page into a protective sheet if you do not want to laminate.
    2. If you plan on downloading all the free kindergarten sight words worksheets, then save the flash card from each pack and place them on a binder ring for quick review!

What are sight words?

Pre-Primer Sight Words. Sight words, or high frequency words as they’re often known, are vocabulary words that appear frequently in verbal and written communication – words such as the, come, to and where. Unfortunately for those learning to read, many of these words are irregularly spelt, making them difficult to sound out phonetically.

Sight words are common words that schools expect kids to recognize instantly. Words like the, it, and and appear so often that beginning readers reach the point where they no longer need to try to sound out these words. They recognize them by sight.

Building up a large base of sight words helps kids become faster, more fluent readers. When kids master a sight word, they no longer have to pause to blend its letter-sounds together. And they don’t have to think about spelling rules. 

Some schools call sight words high-frequency words. Other terms for sight words include star words, core words, and popcorn words. Why popcorn? Because these words “pop up” so frequently in reading and writing. 

Why is it important to learn sight words?

As children read, if they stop to phonetically decode a word the flow of text is interrupted, and comprehension of what has been read can be lost as the reader’s focuses on the task of decoding. It is for this reason that most reading programs recommend that children develop the ability to recall high frequency words automatically or ‘on sight.’ Children with a good grasp of the most regularly used sight words are able to read more fluently which, in turn, supports good reading comprehension.

Using sight word activities like games, centers, and hands-on manipulatives will help your students master skills without even knowing that they are learning!

Make sight word learning a regular part of your literacy block and switch out activities often. By setting aside time for focused attention on sight word learning, you’ll be surprised how quickly your young readers blossom.

It’s critical to teach students to memorize sight words as a whole so that they can recognize them immediately (within 3 seconds) without having to use any strategies to decode them. Imagine how frustrating reading would be if you had to stop and sound out every little word!

Once readers master sight words they are able to understand at least half of the words in any particular text. By eliminating the need to stop and decode sight words, readers are able to focus on words that are less familiar and more difficult.

Using phonics or picture-reading skills for words like these is ineffective for young readers, especially for those who are in the early stages of developing their decoding skills. Therefore we need to know these words by “sight”.

When it comes to learning a skill, the importance of self-efficacy (an individual’s belief in his ability to achieve a goal) cannot be overstated. Children are considerably more inclined to learn something new if they believe they can do it. Thus, enhancing their confidence is key.

Memorizing sight words has now been scientifically proven to induce confusion in young readers since they get to reading things “in context”. For example, in the absence of visual clues, imagine that there are slight misspellings in a common word used in a paragraph – say “whose”, “who’s” and “whoosh”. If the correct usage is the first one, children will often autocorrect in the other two cases and read as if “whose” had been repeated thrice.

Samples From the Worksheet 

With all the diverse approaches at our disposal today, it can be challenging to opt for tactics and activities that are best designed to help kids become confident, fluent readers. To compound the situation, children, parents, and instructors are all heavily overworked! As an adult immersed in the hustle and bustle of life, you may be continuously faced with the task of deciding ways to spend quality time with your children. A productive way to utilize the time you spend with your children is by giving them sight words education.

Learning to read is obviously tricky business. There are so many skills and strategies that need to come together to create fluent readers. One of the first steps in helping our young students get started is focusing on sight words.

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    These sight word activity pages are interactive, hands-on, AND require learners to apply the word into writing a sentence – a BONUS!

    Sight Word Activity Pages for Learn to Read - This Reading Mama

    As I’ve been working with my Kindergartner through Learn to Read, I realized I wanted to stretch her a little more in her sight word knowledge. The curriculum has sight word activity pages, but I wanted some that required her to apply the word into writing a sentence.

    So, I created 48 sight word activity pages that correspond with Learn to Read. I’m sharing those with you for FREE today!

    **These sight word pages are subscriber freebies. If you’re already a subscriber, login here. The updated password is in your MOST CURRENT newsletter! If you’re not a subscriber, you can subscribe here.**

    I got so excited after using these sight word worksheets with my Kindergartner that I created sight word pages for ALL the Dolch Words and Fry’s first 100 and second 100 words!

    Sight Word Activity Pages

    On each page, learners are asked to 1- read the sight word, then 2- find and circle only the correctly spelled sight words.

    Then they are asked to 3-build the word.

    building sight words with magnetic letters

    This can be done with magnetic letters,

    building sight words with letter tiles

    with letter tiles,

    building sight words with letter stamps

    with letter stamps, or any other hands-on manipulative you have.

    trace and spell sight words on sight word activity pages

    After building, learners 4- trace the sight word {with guided support on the first stroke}, and 5- spell the sight word on lines. {In all the Dolch packs and Fry packs, there are also single line options for spelling each sight word.}

    writing a sentence with the sight word on sight word activity pages

    And then comes my favorite part of the sight word activity page. Learners now APPLY their word knowledge to 6- write a sentence with the sight word*.

    This is my favorite part for two main reasons.

    1- Learners have to know what the word says to be able to apply it to a sentence. If all learners are doing is tracing, cutting, pasting, building, and finding, they may not even know what the word is! If they have to write it in a sentence, they need to know what the word says!

    2- They are applying the word to real writing, a step often overlooked by educators of young learners. {Some curricula even teaches that learners shouldn’t be writing until they know how to spell all the words correctly, ignoring the importance and research behind invented spelling.}

    Now, there are several different ways you can handle writing the sentence with young learners. You can really differentiate this step for your learners.

    Learners can:

    • write the sentence themselves {allowing for invented spellings},
    • dictate it to you and you write it,
    • copy it from a sentence you create together {you write it down on another page and they copy it to this page},
    • write it with you {sharing the pencil},
    • or any combination of these.

    *A Quick Tip: Asking learners to write the sight word activity pages can make them not so independent for some of our learners. And that stinks, right? I have my Kindergartner complete the top part of the page by herself. At a later time, we do the writing part together. But again, some learners will want to do the entire page themselves.

    sight word activity pages - visuals for homophones

    Within the pages, there are bound to be homophones (words that sound the same, but mean something different). To help learners know which word meaning they need to use in their writing, a picture is included at the top of the page in the “Read” section.

    Ready to grab the sight word freebies? Click on the image below!

    Readers LOVE our Sight Word Sentence Cards!

    Enjoy teaching!
    ~Becky

    Автор: Горбушина Оксана Сергеевна

    Организация: МБОУ «СОШ №18»

    Населенный пункт: Челябинская область, г. Миасс

    Обучение чтению на английском языке — достаточно сложное занятие, так как есть много слов, которые читаются не по правилам, в большинстве случаев это ставит детей любого возраста в тупик, и поэтому усложняется процесс обучения чтению.

    Как следствие педагог, который обучает ребенка данному виду навыка, должен владеть не просто методикой преподавания иностранного языка, а желательно современными способами преподавания, чтобы процесс обучению чтению проходил быстро, эффективно и увлекательно для детей.

    Мой педагогический опят в школе составляет 11 лет, за это время мы проходили разные курсы повышения квалификации, но, к сожалению, лично я не нашла той «изюминки», за которую хотелось зацепиться и начать использовать в своей практике. Но 2 года назад случилось чудо, я познакомилась с фонетическим подходом в обучении чтению и понятием «sight words». Если о фонетическом подходе я слышала, то о понятие « sight words » в университете и на курсах повышении квалификации не говорили, поэтому я стала изучать эту тему более подробно, чтобы понять, как знание sight words может облегчить процесс обучения чтению.

    Понятие «Sight words» было введено американским писателем Едвардом Уиллиан Долч в 1930 — 1940 годах. Слово « sight » с английского переводится как «взгляд», а «words» — слова. В русском языке такого понятия не существует, но можно провести аналогию с высокочастотными словами. Так вот, sight words – это слова, которые ребенку важно запомнить, чтобы научиться читать и писать. Их нужно запоминать целиком как образ, без необходимости разбивать их на буквы. Изучение sight words помогает детям быстрее научиться читать на ранних этапах. Как правило, дети запоминают слова и при чтении не задумываются, почему буква в этом слове так читается, вследствие этого увеличивается скорость чтения. Дальше перечислены некоторые примеры sight words: I, you, she, he, one, two, this, that, have, some, come и т. д.

    Теперь давайте поговорим подробнее, как мы знакомимся с этими словами на занятиях с детьми возрастом от 5 до 10 лет.

    Я предпочитаю вводить sight word, когда оно встречается в контексте урока или искусственно создаю ситуацию, что бы нужное слово встретилось. Так, например, мы с детьми запоминали языковую конструкцию „She is …“, и на этом этапе я ввела sight word «she».

    На доске я пишу изучаемое слово и прошу детей посмотреть сначала на доску, а затем видео, где показывается параллельно графическое написание слова и его звуковое произношение. Затем после просмотра видео дети должны сказать мне, как оно произноситься. В своей работе я использую видео с ютуб канала «Preschool Prep Company» . Каждое видео – это маленькая история о слове, которая воспринимается с удовольствием.

    После того, как мы познакомились со звуковым содержанием слова, дети вырезают фигуру понравившегося им животного или фрукта из бумаги и клеят на нее печатный вариант слова. Затем с помощью скотча крепят эту картинку на тонкую шашлычную палочку и втыкают ее в коробку, где «живут» у нас все sight words. Такие веселые палочки повышают мотивацию детей и позволяют педагогу быстро повторить с детьми все изученные sight words.

    На следующем уроке мы опять обращаемся к нашим коробочкам, сначала вспоминаем уже изученные слова, а потом продолжаем работу над новым словом. На втором этапе дети делают рабочий лист « worksheet », который помогает ученикам запомнить написание слова. Эти рабочие листы можно найти в интернете и распечатать. Обычно они включают в себя следующие задания: найди слово и обведи его в кружок, обведи буквы слова, раскрась буквы разными цветами, найди слово и выдели его маркером, напиши его, вырежи буквы слова и приклей их в правильном порядке. Работа с рабочим листом занимает максимум минут 10, но зато дети начинают его узнавать. Однако этого не достаточно, чтобы запомнить его окончательно.

    Кроме того, периодически на занятиях мы возвращаемся к sight words и играем с ними. На листах формата А4 я печатаю по одному изучаемому слову, раскладываю листы на полу, предварительно вспомнив с детьми какое слово как читается. Задание заключается в том, что дети должны наступить на то слово, которое называет учитель. Здесь важно время от времени перемещать листы на полу, так как некоторые дети запоминают не слово, а место где лежит слово. Данная игра активная, позволяет детям подвигаться, отдохнуть и заодно выучить sight words.

    И последнее, что я создала для лучшего изучения sight words – это была интерактивная игра на сайте Wordwall. Wordwall – представляет собой многофункциональный инструмент для создания как интерактивных, так и печатных материалов. Игры, созданные на этом сайте, очень удобно использовать при дистанционном обучении. Мной было создано вращающиеся колесо, которое делится на несколько разноцветных секторов. В каждом секторе написано определенное sight word. Задача детей — крутить колесо и называть то слово, на которое покажет стрелка. Ребята играют в эту игру с большим интересом.

    После того, как мы проходим через все эти этапы, обычно дети без проблем узнают изученные слова и они не вызывают у них никаких трудностей на всех этапах обучения чтению и письму. Чтобы читатель мог прочувствовать и понять, как детям нравится изучать sight words, я создала презентацию, где можно проследить все этапы изучения этих « обычных необычных » слов.

    Список литературы:

    1. http://didaktor.ru/wordwall-zamechatelnaya-kollekciya-shablonov-didakticheskix-igr/

    2. https://letterland.ru/cards/

    3. https://vk.com/@english.stepbystep-sight-words-chto-eto-i-kak-s-nimi-rabotat.

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    Опубликовано: 17.05.2021

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