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So many sight word books are available on the market for teaching emergent readers. Check out these tried and true sight word books and sets.

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When kids first learn how to read, it’s important for them to learn sight words alongside phonics. Give kids these top sight word books to expand their knowledge!

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Memorizing sight words is really important for beginning readers so I try to integrate instruction into as many parts of my day as I can. For that very reason, these 10 books to teach sight words are read often by both me and my students.


There are over one hundred sight words and high frequency words that are so common they show up in the text we read quite frequently.

Many of the books we read aloud to our students are full of rich vocabulary but they are also peppered with sight words and high frequency words.

I love to teach sight words and give practice in tons of creative ways. I provide hands-on practice, show my favorite videos and give them the chance to build the sight words in literacy centers.

As teachers, we know our students learn best in context. Hearing, seeing and connecting these words within a text is super powerful for our students!

I find that reading books that prominently feature sight words can help my students memorize them, too. Many of the books on this list feature repetitive text that includes common sight words.

After I read these books aloud, they find a home in my classroom library. My students love to reread them. Even if they aren’t reading words quite yet, they retell the story and often times use the exact same wording. They can remember it because of the repetition! That is one of the ways these books to teach sight words are so beneficial.

Note: Did you know there is a difference between sight words and high frequency words? I thought they were the same thing for the longest time. Now that I know the difference, I approach instruction differently. You can read more about that here!

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Books to teach sight words

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

It’s not so hard to see why this book would make the list of books to teach sight words! The question “What do you see?” is made of four sight words that we introduce at the beginning of the school year!

This question repeats over and over again in the story along with the reply, “I see a _____ looking at me.” More sight words!

My students love to reread this story in library or retell it with puppets. They are getting multiple exposures to really common words every single time they do!

Home

Home

I absolutely love this book by Carson Ellis. The whimsical illustrations capture both me and my students so completely. The topic is one that we discuss a lot in my classroom, too, so it easily fits into our curriculum.

Home explores the many different types of homes as well as the varied places they can be. It includes the sentence frame “A home is a…” as well as “Some homes are…” These phrases repeat through the book.

I love that we can dig deeper into this simple story by exploring the new vocabulary and broadening our world view, too!

Where Is the Green Sheep?

Where Is the Green Sheep?

This adorable book uses the phrase “Here is the…” and the question “Where is the…?” as we search for the green sheep.

The book explores opposites like thin and wide as well as colors like red and blue. Most of these are also sight words or high frequency words!

My students enjoy the cadence of this read aloud as they listen and often help with the words to describe the different sheep. It is a really popular one to reread in the library.

The Bus for Us

bus book to teach sight words

Tess is waiting for the bus for her first day of school. She has never ridden one before. Her brother stands with her as she waits and asks “Is this the bus for us, Gus?”

We see all sorts of vehicles like taxis, fire engines and tow trucks. They peek their nose in on one page so students can guess! They absolutely love this!

The repetitive text is perfect for rereading and recognizing those common sight words.

From Head to Toe

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This book introduces different animals and what they do. For example, the penguin says, “I can turn my head. Can you do it?” On the next page a child says “I can do it.”

This book is super engaging because they can do the actions the animals are doing. The text is really repetitive so they actually start to answer with the words written in the book: I can do it.

We read this book many times throughout the year and it is also one of my most popular library books.

Jump, Frog, Jump

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Jump, Frog, Jump follows the same kind of pattern as the “There was an old lady who…” style books. Frog is trying to escape being eaten by the different animals in the pond.

The simple, repetitive text is a favorite of my students. Each new animal fills this sentence frame: “This is a ____ that ____ after the frog.” Then the following page says “Jump, Frog, jump!”

My students love to warn Frog to jump! Will he escape? You’ll have to read it to see!

Five Trucks

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Five Trucks is about five different trucks (obviously ?). You read about their different characteristics and jobs.

The adjectives used to describe the trucks include tons of great sight words and high frequency words, like large and small. The book also refers to the trucks as first, second, third, fourth and fifth, which are all words I want my students to learn as well. #ordinalnumbers #yay

We read this book when we talk about communities. It is especially appealing to my students who are fascinated by different forms of transportation.

I Want My Hat Back

best sight word books

I Want My Hat Back is about a bear who has lost his hat. He asks the animals he sees if they have seen his hat. There are a lot of opportunities to inference where the hat has gone.

It will leave your students laughing, I PROMISE.

The text in this book is SUPER simple. In fact, I would venture to say that almost all of the words are sight words!

This book is one of my favorites of all time. Including it in this list is a must for me! I love reading it aloud to my students and they love rereading it in the library.

If you haven’t read this one to your class, you NEED to. (Seriously!)

Frog and Toad

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Frog and Toad books are well-loved classics for a reason. Students find the stories really engaging and relatable.

The text is simple and accessible and full of the sight words we start our year learning. Those are just a few reasons students come back to this series over and over again.

I love to introduce Frog and Toad toward the beginning of the year. My students are fascinated by the chapters and Frog and Toad’s friendship.

Elephant and Piggie Books

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I have saved my absolute FAVORITES for last. You cannot find better, more engaging sight word books to read aloud to your students than Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems.

Elephant and Piggie are friends who work through important issues like friendship, waiting and sharing. They do it in a really funny way that students relate to. Honestly, I enjoy the banter between the characters, too!

I own every single one of these books because they are just THAT GOOD. They are some of the first books my students read on their own in the library because they text is really simple and predictable. In addition to that, they are super engaging.


I chose these 10 books to teach sight words because they are ones both my students and I choose to read over and over again. I truly believe the repetition has helped them memorize more words!

How do you use books to encourage students to learn new sight words and practice familiar ones? I would love to know! Let me know below.?

If you’re looking for printable sight word practice, check out these Sight Word Sentences! Each page targets a sight word for tons of explicit practice.

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Are you teaching sight words to young readers?

You’re in the right place!

In this post I’ll show you exactly how to teach sight words using hands-on lessons and free printable sight word books.

But first things first …

What ARE sight words, anyway?

It depends whom you ask.

When reading researchers use the term sight words, they’re referring to the words that a reader recognizes instantly, on sight.

Sight words can also refer to words that our readers encounter frequently when reading. That’s the definition I’ll be using here. We want our readers to know these words instantly as they work to become fluent readers.

It’s time to rethink how we teach sight words.

I used to think that when we teach sight words to young readers, we should teach them as whole words. This is why I used to share a collection of sight word books that taught the words through repeated exposure. (Those will soon disappear from the site and my shop.)

But research is telling us that this isn’t how the brain learns to read.

In order for kids’ brains to make new words a part of their permanent sight word vocabulary (the fancy word for this is orthographic mapping), they need to connect the sounds to the letters.

In other words? Sound it out.

Integrating high-frequency words into phonics lessons allows students to make sense of spelling patterns for these words. – readingrockets.org

I know what you’re thinking.

What about words that we CAN’T sound out?

We call attention to the parts of the word that are phonetic (and there’s usually at least 1-2 of them). Then we teach learners to learn the tricky parts by heart.

How to teach high frequency words to young learners

  • First, know our goal here. Our goal is not to teach loads of sight words as whole words, because kids need to connect the sounds to letters when reading. Instead, our goal is to integrate sight word learning with phonics instruction.
  • Next, we need to make sure our learners are ready to sound out words. Not sure? Check out this post.
  • All set? Great. Name the new word, and have your learner repeat it.
  • Name the individual phonemes (sounds) in the word. For example, in the word is, there are two phonemes: /i/ and /z/.
  • Spell the sounds. Call attention to any unexpected spelling. In is, we spell /i/ with i and /z/ with s.
  • If possible, have your learner read related words. Has and his are great words to read alongside is because they are short vowel words with an s that represents the the /z/ sound.
  • Have your learner read connected text. Connected text can be decodable sentences or books.

Watch the video to see a sight word lesson in action …

Where can you find sight word lessons and decodable sight word books?

You’ll find a beginner’s collection below. Enjoy!

P.S. I look forward to adding more of these to our membership site, The Measured Mom Plus. I do not plan to add any more free books to this page. Learn more about membership here.

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Say goodbye to worksheets that simply keep kids busy. THESE worksheets help kids focus on the spellings of each individual sound … which is exactly what they need to master these high frequency words!

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When you’re a new teacher, the number of buzzwords that you have to master seems overwhelming at times. You’ve probably heard about many concepts, but you may not be entirely sure what they are or how to use them in your classroom. For example, new teacher Katy B. asks, “This seems like a really basic question, but what are sight words, and where do I find them?” No worries, Katy. We have you covered!

What’s the difference between sight words and high-frequency words?

Oftentimes we use the terms sight words and high-frequency words interchangeably. Opinions differ, but our research shows that there is a difference. High-frequency words are words that are most commonly found in written language. Although some fit standard phonetic patterns, some do not. Sight words are a subset of high-frequency words that do not fit standard phonetic patterns and are therefore not easily decoded. 

We use both types of words consistently in spoken and written language, and they also appear in books, including textbooks, and stories. Once students learn to quickly recognize these words, reading comes more easily.

What are sight words and how can I teach my students to memorize them?

Sight words are words like come, does, or who that do not follow the rules of spelling or the six types of syllables. Decoding these words can be very difficult for young learners. The common practice has been to teach students to memorize these words as a whole, by sight, so that they can recognize them immediately (within three seconds) and read them without having to use decoding skills.

Can I teach sight words using the science of reading?

On the other hand, recent findings based on the science of reading suggests we can use strategies beyond rote memorization. According to the the science of reading, it is possible to sound out many sight words because they have recognizable patterns. Literacy specialist Susan Jones, a proponent of using the science of reading to teach sight words, recommends a method called phoneme-grapheme mapping where students first map out the sounds they hear in a word and then add graphemes (letters) they hear for each sound.

How else can I teach sight words?

There are many fun and engaging ways to teach sight words. Dozens of books on the subject have been published, including the much-revered Comprehensive Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Guide by Fountas & Pinnell. Also, resources like games, manipulatives, and flash cards are readily available online and in stores. To help get you started, check out these Creative and Simple Sight Word Activities for the Classroom. Also, check out Susan Jones Teaching for three science-of-reading-based ideas and more.

Where do I find sight word lists?

Two of the most popular sources are the Dolch High Frequency Words list and the Fry High Frequency Words list.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Edward Dolch developed his word list, used for pre-K through third grade, by studying the most frequently occurring words in the children’s books of that era. The list has 200 “service words” and also 95 high-frequency nouns. The Dolch word list comprises 80 percent of the words you would find in a typical children’s book and 50 percent of the words found in writing for adults.

Dr. Edward Fry developed an expanded word list for grades 1–10 in the 1950s (updated in 1980), based on the most common words that appear in reading materials used in grades 3–9. The Fry list contains the most common 1,000 words in the English language. The Fry words include 90 percent of the words found in a typical book, newspaper, or website.

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What Are Sight Words?

Sight words are a vital part of the reading journey, particularly for young children. The more times they see a word, the easier it becomes for them to recognize it. 

Words on sight word lists are commonly used and so they appear often. Reading age appropriate texts using these words enhances their understanding of the word as well as ensures a solid foundation for reading in the future. 

Sight word books give kids a variety of ways to see and practice these words in a fun, engaging way. Check out the great options below to find activities to fit your needs.

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EducationOutside’s mini books cover the first 100 Fry sight words and provide ample opportunities for young readers to read, write, and identify each word. These interactive books invite kids to do a different task on every page. 

Each book focuses on a single sight word and has pages for tracing, circling, writing, reading in context, and completing a sentence using the target word. These books come in black and white or color so you get to choose whether to add coloring pictures into the mix.

These books will keep kids busy and learning as they memorize these important words.

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These readers by JEFishy provide one-to-one correspondence as kids read through sentences each featuring a kindergarten sight word. With colorful pictures and a fun storyline, kids will be engaged and interested the whole time.

You get an option of printing in black and white or color so you can let kids color the pictures as part of your lesson. These are great for desk work, at home learning, or as a center.

Each book lets kids trace one of five sight words multiple times while reading a kid-friendly story. 

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If you want to cover a variety of words, this endless sight word bundle by SimplyKinder will keep your students busy for a long time. The bundle includes 67 pages for each sight word and over 200 books to work through. 

The set includes color words, number words, Dolch pre-primer through first grade sight words, Fry’s first 100 words, and a variety of other common words. Kids get to dot, trace, write, cut, search, practice, and read the target word in a variety of fun activities. 

With this bundle, you won’t soon run out of ways to practice nearly any sight word.

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These sight word reader books by SoDangFun provide five common sight words for kids to practice. Also, included are color and number words within two of the books. 

Students will get to trace words and finish sentences, as well as draw pictures to go with their sentences. Each sentence begins with a sentence starter including the sight word and allows students to use their imagination to create their own unique book. 

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If you’re working with preschoolers, this pre-primer mini book set from EducationOutside covers the full list of Dolch words for this age group. The books present a variety of interactive ways for kids to practice each word. Each book features one word and is eight pages of different activities.

These printable books include tracing, circling, writing, and reading the word, as well as a place to finish the sentence.

With both black and white and color options, you can turn this into a coloring activity if desired. This is great for centers, desk work, or at-home learning. 

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EducationToTheCore’s sight word booklets feature the top 100 Fry words and each book targets a different word. Kids will enjoy tracing, coloring, and highlighting the sight word in the book and won’t even realize they’re learning at the same time. 

Picture clues help kids understand the reading passage in each book and a visualization component is included for kids to draw their own picture.

With 200 pages of practice, these printable books are ready in a just a few minutes and are an excellent addition to any lesson plans.

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Looking for a simple set that is easy for preschoolers and kindergarteners to follow? These sight word books by PagesWithPurpose feature Fry’s first 100 words in easy-to-read sentences with the target word in a traceable font for kids to practice. 

The cute illustrations also provide picture clues and coloring opportunities to add a fun, creative aspect. Each book has six sentences for kids to read and trace. These are great activities to improve sight word recognition and are quick and easy to print.

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If you’re looking for the whole kit and kaboodle, this huge set of sight word books from SightWordActivities will fit the bill. First off, this is the entire 220 word Dolch sight word set from pre-primer through third grade. Each book highlights one sight word and you can progress through each list as quickly or slowly as your lesson plans dictate. 

Each page provides kids an activity to do, such as coloring, tracing, cutting, and writing the word. This is great for any lesson plan or activity center and keeps kids engaged and interacting. You even get a blank, editable book so you can add any word you like.

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This is another great Dolch sight word bundle from MrsDsCorner that includes 219 sight words. Each page of the book features a different activity for students to complete. The cover also depicts the word in sign language.

Inside, students will read sentences, trace, write, find and circle, color, and cut and paste the target word. Sentences are repeated to increase comprehension and give confidence as they read through the book.

Each day of the week, the first four pages can be done again to further increase word recognition. At the end of each book, there is a certificate which can be signed as proof of completion and mastery.

Conclusion

Reading is a skill we use throughout our lives and recognizing commonly used words is essential to reading success.

Whether you’re teaching preschoolers or school-age kids, the resources above are great sight word book options to help grow their skillset and set them up for success.

Overview

Learn the history behind Dolch and Fry sight words, and why they are important in developing fluent readers.

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Lessons

Follow the sight words teaching techniques. Learn research-validated and classroom-proven ways to introduce words, reinforce learning, and correct mistakes.

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Flash Cards

Print your own sight words flash cards. Create a set of Dolch or Fry sight words flash cards, or use your own custom set of words.

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  1. Overview
  2. What Are Sight Words?
  3. Types of Sight Words
  4. When to Start
  1. Scaling & Scaffolding
  2. Research
  3. Questions and Answers

1. Overview

Sight words instruction is an excellent supplement to phonics instruction. Phonics is a method for learning to read in general, while sight words instruction increases a child’s familiarity with the high frequency words he will encounter most often.

The best way to learn sight words is through lots and lots of repetition, in the form of flashcard exercises and word-focused games.

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2. What Are Sight Words?

Sight words are words that should be memorized to help a child learn to read and write. Learning sight words allows a child to recognize these words at a glance — on sight — without needing to break the words down into their individual letters and is the way strong readers recognize most words. Knowing common, or high frequency, words by sight makes reading easier and faster, because the reader does not need to stop to try and sound out each individual word, letter by letter.

Sight Words are memorized so that a child can recognize commonly used or phonetically irregular words at a glance, without needing to go letter-by-letter.

Other terms used to describe sight words include: service words, instant words (because you should recognize them instantly), snap words (because you should know them in a snap), and high frequency words. You will also hear them referred to as Dolch words or Fry words, the two most commonly used sight words lists.

Sight words are the glue that holds sentences together.

These pages contain resources to teach sight words, including: sight words flash cards, lessons, and games. If you are new to sight words, start with the teaching strategies to get a road map for teaching the material, showing you how to sequence the lessons and activities.

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3. Types of Sight Words

Sight words fall into two categories:

  • Frequently Used Words — Words that occur commonly in the English language, such as it, can, and will. Memorizing these words makes reading much easier and smoother, because the child already recognizes most of the words and can concentrate their efforts on new words. For example, knowing just the Dolch Sight Words would enable you to read about 50% of a newspaper or 80% of a children’s book.
  • Non-Phonetic Words — Words that cannot be decoded phonetically, such as buy, talk, or come. Memorizing these words with unnatural spellings and pronunciations teaches not only these words but also helps the reader recognize similar words, such as guy, walk, or some.

There are several lists of sight words that are in common use, such as Dolch, Fry, Top 150, and Core Curriculum. There is a great deal of overlap among the lists, but the Dolch sight word list is the most popular and widely used.

3.1 Dolch Sight Words

The Dolch Sight Words list is the most commonly used set of sight words. Educator Dr. Edward William Dolch developed the list in the 1930s-40s by studying the most frequently occurring words in children’s books of that era. The list contains 220 “service words” plus 95 high-frequency nouns. The Dolch sight words comprise 80% of the words you would find in a typical children’s book and 50% of the words found in writing for adults. Once a child knows the Dolch words, it makes reading much easier, because the child can then focus his or her attention on the remaining words.

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3.2 Fry Sight Words

The Fry Sight Words list is a more modern list of words, and was extended to capture the most common 1,000 words. Dr. Edward Fry developed this expanded list in the 1950s (and updated it in 1980), based on the most common words to appear in reading materials used in Grades 3-9. Learning all 1,000 words in the Fry sight word list would equip a child to read about 90% of the words in a typical book, newspaper, or website.

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3.3 Top 150 Written Words

The Top 150 Written Words is the newest of the word lists featured on our site, and is commonly used by people who are learning to read English as a non-native language. This list consists of the 150 words that occur most frequently in printed English, according to the Word Frequency Book. This list is recommended by Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., Professor of Learning Development at Yale University’s School of Medicine.

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3.4 Other Sight Words Lists

There are many newer variations, such as the Common Core sight words, that tweak the Dolch and Fry sight words lists to find the combination of words that is the most beneficial for reading development. Many teachers take existing sight word lists and customize them, adding words from their own classroom lessons.

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4. When to Start Teaching Sight Words

Before a child starts learning sight words, it is important that he/she be able to recognize and name all the lower-case letters of the alphabet. When prompted with a letter, the child should be able to name the letter quickly and confidently. Note that, different from learning phonics, the child does not need to know the letters’ sounds.

Before starting sight words, a child needs to be able to recognize and name all the lower-case letters of the alphabet.

If a student’s knowledge of letter names is still shaky, it is important to spend time practicing this skill before jumping into sight words. Having a solid foundation in the ability to instantly recognize and name the alphabet letters will make teaching sight words easier and more meaningful for the child.

Go to our Lessons for proven strategies on how to teach and practice sight words with your child.

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5. Scaling & Scaffolding

Every child is unique and will learn sight words at a different rate. A teacher may have a wide range of skill levels in the same classroom. Many of our sight words games can be adjusted to suit different skill levels.

Many of our activity pages feature recommendations for adjusting the game to the needs of your particular child or classroom:

  • Confidence Builders suggest ways to simplify a sight words game for a struggling student.
  • Extensions offer tips for a child who loves playing a particular game but needs to be challenged more.
  • Variations suggest ways to change up the game a little, by tailoring it to a child’s special interests or making it “portable.”
  • Small Group Adaptations offer ideas for scaling up from an individual child to a small group (2-5 children), ensuring that every child is engaged and learning.

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6. Research

Our sight words teaching techniques are based not only on classroom experience but also on the latest in child literacy research. Here is a bibliography of some of the research supporting our approach to sight words instruction:

  • Ceprano, M. A. “A review of selected research on methods of teaching sight words.” The Reading Teacher 35:3 (1981): 314-322.
  • Ehri, Linnea C. “Grapheme–Phoneme Knowledge Is Essential for Learning to Read Words in English.” Word Recognition in Beginning Literacy. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1998.
  • Enfield, Mary Lee, and Victoria Greene. Project Read. www.projectread.com. 1969.
  • Gillingham, Anna, and Bessie W. Stillman. The Gillingham Manual: Remedial Training for Students with Specific Disability in Reading, Spelling, and Penmanship, 8th edition. Cambridge, MA: Educators Publishing Service, 2014.
  • Nist, Lindsay, and Laurice M. Joseph. “Effectiveness and Efficiency of Flashcard Drill Instructional Methods on Urban First-Graders’ Word Recognition, Acquisition, Maintenance, and Generalization.” School Psychology Review 37:3 (Fall 2008): 294-308.
  • Shaywitz, Sally E. Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
  • Stoner, J.C. “Teaching at-risk students to read using specialized techniques in the regular classroom.” Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3 (1991).
  • Wilson, Barbara A. “The Wilson Reading Method.” Learning Disabilities Journal 8:1 (February 1998): 12-13.
  • Wilson, Barbara A. Wilson Reading System. Millbury, MA: Wilson Language Training, 1988.

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Young children will enjoy learning their sight words with these fun Primer Sight Word Books.

Primer Sight Words Books

Check out the list of materials that we use with these printables.

What are Sight Words?

Sight words are words that we see the most frequently while reading and writing. They don’t often have an image that can be used to picture them. Due to their high appearance, children need to be able to recognise, and understand them as soon as they read them. This will enable them to read fluently and independently.

Not all of the sight words follow the standard phonetic spelling patterns either. These words including as talk, come, once and the, are known as non-phonetic or tricky words. They are difficult for children to sound out, making it easier to teach children to identify them through recognition and repetition. 

Sight words are the most common words in the English language which all children should learn to read by sight. These words are not sound out. Learning these words is a great base for reading, another very important skill that they will learn.

With this activity, children will learn 52 sight words from the Primer  list.

Primer Sight Words Books - template books

In this printable sight word pack, you will receive:

  • One book for each of the fifty-two different sight words

The fifty-two sight words – all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good, have, he, into, like, must, new, no, now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, well, went, what, white, who, will, with, yes.

To Prepare

Print out each book and then fold the book in half longways and then fold in half again, leaving the cover on the front.

Each page consists of a variety of activities to help children learn to read and spell the sight word. These activities include:

  • Front cover – Colour or trace the word and write their name
  • Read the Word
  • Shade or Colour the word
  • Trace the word
  • Write the Word
  • Box the word
  • Find the word 
  • Circle the word in the sentences
  • Write a sentence using the word 

Primer Sight Words Books multiple books printed out

More Sight Word Printables

  • Treasure Chest Sight Words Activity
  • Beach Sight Word Printables
  • Snail Sight Words Activity
  • Fishing for Sight Words Activity
  • Pre-Primer Sight Word Printables
  • Primer Sight Word Printables
  • First Grade Sight Word Printables
  • Second Grade Sight Word Printables
  • Third Grade Sight Word Printables
  • Noun Sight Word Printables
  • Primer Sight Word Worksheets
  • First Grade Sight Word Worksheets
  • Second Grade Sight Word Worksheets
  • Third Grade Sight Word Worksheets
  • Noun Sight Word Worksheets
  • Second Grade Sight Word Books
  • First Grade Sight Word Books
  • Pre-Primer Sight Word Books
  • Third Grade Sight Word Books

The activity pages are no-prep pages all in black and white for easy printing.

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