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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 5 of 16

Sight Words

Words we know by sight

What your child practices

Recognizing common words such as the, see, can and my, plus color and number words, by looking closely at their letters.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: KRF3 · reading common high-frequency words by sight

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Sight words are words we see a lot, like “the”, “is” and “red”.
  2. Look at the first letter, then the whole word.
  3. Say the word each time you see it.

Example: Find the word “is”: it, is or in? “is” starts with i and ends with s. Only one word ends with s. Answer: is

Sight Words in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 5 of 16 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Clap the Beat and before Story Order.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Find this word.

    me
    • me
    • can
    • see

  2. Question 2

    Find this word.

    no
    • the
    • to
    • no

  3. Question 3

    Find this word.

    it
    • it
    • to
    • go

  4. Question 4

    Find this word.

    to
    • like
    • to
    • we

  5. Question 5

    Which word goes with the picture?

    🤸
    • run
    • look
    • jump

  6. Question 6

    Which word goes with the picture?

    🟠
    • red
    • purple
    • orange

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