Over the last week, I have been working with Dexter, who just turned six, on his reading skills. We have this great set of Lego Star Wars phonics books that we bought him, and he has been going through them, sounding out each sight word beautifully. But I do find that it’s sometimes hard to get him to pay attention because he wants to just get through the story, and he isn’t always so concerned with actually reading. As such, he tries to guess each word instead of sounding it out.
I decided that the best thing I could do was to create some sight words flash cards that would help him to memorize a few of the most often appearing words so that he can begin the process of putting sentences together.
In all honesty, I’ve been amazed at his progress. He’s recently had his mid-year testing done, and our parent teacher conference was very telling. He has come a LONG way since the beginning of the year, and he is way ahead of where he used to be. But that doesn’t mean he’s caught up to the rest of his class. In fact, he’s significantly behind them.
Because of his early hearing loss, for which he had surgery at almost three years old, he has been massively delayed in his learning skills. He’s never gone to preschool, nor had any therapy leading up to starting kindergarten, so he was off to a harder start than others. But he’s done so well this year to better himself, and we are so proud. To put it in perspective, though, his little brother, Dan – who just turned four – can read almost as well as he can. He knows all his letters and their sounds, and he can sound out two- and three-letter words amazingly well.
So basically, we are now working hard with both kids to help them to reach their full potential. For Daniel, I guess he will be ahead of his peers, or at least on par with them when he starts kindergarten in a year and a half. And for Dexter, we are hopefully going to be able to enable him to catch up to his classmates as quickly as he can. I know he has the rest of the year to learn as much as they can teach him. He has a wonderful teacher, and he loves her class. The rest is up to us.
With that in mind, I decided to share these printable flash cards so that others can print them off and use them to help their own kids. These are some of the most common sight words, and they are perfect to begin at preschool level. But they are also great for 5 – 8 year olds who may struggle with reading.
Please feel free to click on each worksheet for the pdf to print out. I suggest using card stock to print them on, but you could also use regular printer paper and use self-adhesive laminating sheets to laminate each card to make them more sturdy.
I hope these can help someone else.
Please feel free to share this post with anyone who may need it. My aim is to help other parents to help their children learn to read more easily.
My daughter is a preschool teacher and just loves sight word cards. They really do wonders.
Thanks for sharing at Funtastic Friday!
Thanks ! Very helpful. Just what I was looking for ^^ .
Thank you so much! This is just what I was looking for for my six year old son who likes to guess the words instead of sounding them out. I plan to laminate them and post them around the house for him and my 4 yr. old to see every day.
Thank you so much for sharing these and allowing them to be used by others for free!
Thank you!!!!
Thank you for your generosity both in heart and words.
Thank you for sharing your story and the flash cards!!
Thank you so much
These fresh cards will be very useful for my students. Thank you so much!!!
Thanks! this is very useful for my kids.im looking for this printables because I’m teaching my 2 kids at home.thanks somuch!
Thank you, the cards are clear and visible and very helpful
I don’t seem to be able to print these wonderful cards. I have clicked on everything and nothing happens.HELP!!
Hi Teri,
You should be able to just click on any of the card pictures, and it will open a pdf file with that color card. Then just print and go! I hope that helps!
Hi. Is there a way to make the cards editable? I love the cards, but would like to add my own words.
Becky
Hi Becky,
There are some blank cards included so that you can write on them whichever words you want. Unfortunately that’s the best I can do for now. I hope they are useful!
Hi I see some blank cards at the end… I need some sight words that are not there. pls can you tell me how we can edit and write on the blank ones. sight words I need are :
me, saw, away, take, too, our, off, just, went, must, only, here, came, where.
Hiya!
I added in the blank ones so you can just write on them once they are printed. I hope that helps!
Thank you so much – these are really helpful!
I shall use these in my ESL class immediately! Thank you!
Thank you so much for the wonderful printables!!!! Hope Your son is doing Well!
A big thanks! I will use these in my class.
thank you so very much
This is Awesome! Thank you very much!!
THIS is exactly what I was looking for!! Thank you so much.
Wow! These are wonderful! How grateful I am that you offered these for free! Thanks so very, very much!
A HUGE THANK YOU for these COLORFUL Sight Word FLASH CARDS!!!! 🙂
I was looking for some flash cards.
Thank you very much!
hi! these are great, what grades do these cover? (i need PK – 3) 🙂
These are great for PK – 3, though most kids will learn these in 1st grade. 🙂 They are good practice for struggling readers, though, as they get older.
The page won’t load properly for me for some reason. Is there a way to have you send me the link to the free printable sight word flashcards?
Thank you these are wonderful!
Do you have a blank template of these sight word cards? My son like these and I wanted to be able to add more words with the same card style. Thanks.
Hi Tamika,
There is a set of blank cards included that you can use to write your own on. I hope that helps!
I will be teaching first graders in September. These sight word cards will help me a great deal.
Yay! So glad to hear.
Thank you for sharing!!