Sight Words

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Sight Words

Learn the most common English words by sight — you’ll see them in every sentence!

📚 4 Sets🔤 20 Words🃏 Flashcards🎮 Quizzes

👀 What are Sight Words?

Sight words are common words that kids should recognize instantly — without having to sound them out letter by letter. Words like “the“, “is“, and “are” appear so often that reading becomes much faster once you know them by heart!

Many sight words don’t follow regular phonics rules, so they can’t be easily sounded out. For example, “the” doesn’t sound like “t-h-e” — you just have to memorize how it looks and sounds as a whole word.

💡 How to Learn Sight Words

The best way is flashcards! See the word → say the word → use it in a sentence. Practice 3–5 words per day. Within a week, your child will know all 20 words! We’ve included a flashcard game below.

✨ All 20 Sight Words

Here’s a preview of every sight word you’ll learn!

👆the
👉is
🙋am
👫are
was
👦he
👧she
🔴it
👭we
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦they
📖a
🍎an
🤝and
🏫to
📦in
📕my
🫵your
👈this
👉that
👗has

🃏 Flashcard Practice

Tap the card to reveal an example sentence!

Tap to see a sentence →

Word 1 of 20

Start with Set 1! ⭐

Learn the 5 most important sight words: the, is, am, are, was

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