Hi there readers! Long time no posting huh?!? Seems like there just isn’t any time these days and days just pass by so, so fast. You know how it is… one minute you have a newborn and then you blink and you have a Kindergartner! Where does the time seriously go?

Free Kindergarten Sight Word Printable Flash Cards

Since our gal is now a big kid Kindergartner, she’s having fun reading and writing. She’s a great student who loves learning. Reading and Phonics in general are two of my gal’s stronger areas.  I think this is mainly due to the fact that she doesn’t mind putting in the work in those areas at all. She will let me show her sight word flash cards when we are sitting there eating a snack or even when we are stuck somewhere waiting in the car. I also will pull a pad and pen out when we are waiting at a restaurant or a for a check-up. Anytime we have to wait I try to fill that time with some sort of fun learning.  She doesn’t mind it at all and she really is proud when she reads a new word that I might throw in or a new word in a book or on a sign.

Up until last week we had sort of a mixed bag of sight word cards from school, from lists, etc. I wanted to make sure we weren’t missing any key words and was beyond tired of my mishmash of cards.  I wanted a set of flash cards that were uniform… so I (finally) typed up a list of 200 words we are working on. We have a green box for ‘go words’ or words she knows by heart and a small yellow box of ‘almost words’ that we are still working on. We use these cards for both reading and spelling practice.

Since it’s a pretty comprehensive list of sight words, I wanted to share them with anyone looking for a free printable set of Kindergarten Sight Words.

 (updated link… you can now download straight from PPP)

Kindergarten Sight Words Download

This is a group of cards of combined lists and is a pretty sizable list for Kindergarten, but if you have a list you want to work on then just pull out a small amount of cards at a time and save the rest. I like the size of these cards because they are easy for small hands and easy to use and tuck away.

Sight Word Flash Card Tips…

Just a couple of tips to share on how we use these, etc.

• Use cardstock- I printed these out on card stock and just cut them apart. I do not laminate these. Also, you could punch a hole and put a binder ring to keep them together. You can find these in the office aisle at Walmart or Target or an office supply store like Staples.

• Easy way to separate the ones to work on- As I mentioned above, we have a green card box (just the little inexpensive ones that are less than 50 cents at the grocery store) and a yellow box. When we work on the cards and my gal is super excited to get to move a card or cards to the green box.

• Keeping up with progress- On the back of cards I have two columns… one that says ‘Read’ and the other that says ‘Spell’. I mark the day that my gal can read a word and the day she can spell it on the back of the card. I do because it helps me track words we are having trouble with. Also, it’s another pride or sense of accomplishment thing for my gal because I can point out to her when she’s conquered a troublesome word. I keep on doing this even after a word can be read, etc. because sometimes she will forget how to spell one every now and then and honestly… it’s just a habit at this point!

• Ways to use to work on spelling-  We work on spelling several different ways, but a few of the ways that we use flash cards to help us spell are by having my daughter read the word and then when she thinks she can spell it, she turns it over and either spells it by writing it (on paper or on a lined dry erase board) or by using magnetic letter tiles (I have the tiles in alphabetical order on an easel board in front of her and she puts them on a magnetic board in front of her).

• Make-up sentences with the words- Take a small pile and put them in a bowl or basket on the table. Take turns drawing out a card, reading the word and then using the word in a sentence. I find this extra helpful for words sound alike, but have different meanings (homophones)… ‘two’ and ‘too’ or ‘their’ and ‘there’.

Hope you enjoy these tips and the cards and that you have fun helping your little one learn to read!