Words to know by sight
Ten common words · Alberta Grade 1 · maddyhelps.com
- Name
- Date
These come up constantly and several cannot be sounded out, so they are worth knowing whole. Trace, then write. Two or three a day is plenty.
Keep a sight-word list short and reserve it for words that genuinely break the rules — said, was, the. A child given cat as a sight word has been taught to guess rather than to read.
Why this matters is on the reading and writing page. More sheets