Making Sight Words Easier Through Phonics - Endless Heart Word Worksheets

Traditional sight word instruction has been shown to not be effective for students who are struggling with reading. Despite this, many teachers still rely on memorization of sight words as a key part of their reading instruction. Instead, we should b

Sight Word Worksheets

Traditional sight word instruction has been shown to not be effective for students who are struggling with reading. Despite this, many teachers still rely on memorization of sight words as a key part of their reading instruction. Instead, we should be teaching our students high-frequency words using phonics skills and then practice sight words by having our students learn the “tricky parts” of irregular words by heart. That is why I created the Endless Heart Word Worksheets! These Science of Reading aligned worksheets will help your students improve their reading fluency without the need for extra prep work or rote memorization.


What Are Sight Words?

Sight words are high-frequency words that are used often in everyday conversations and written texts. They usually cannot be sounded out using phonics skills so they must be learned by sight or memory alone. Sight words generally make up 50-75% of any text, so it is important for students to learn them quickly and accurately in order to read fluently and with comprehension.

Why Use These Sight Word Worksheets?

The Endless Heart Word Worksheets have been designed based on Science of Reading principles and are intended to help students learn high-frequency sight words more easily. Rather than having them memorize the entire word, these worksheets focus on teaching them the “tricky part” – usually one or two letters – then using phonics skills for the rest of the word. This helps reduce student frustration as they don’t need to remember as much information and makes it easier for them to read fluently with comprehension. Additionally, since these worksheets are NO PREP resources, you can easily integrate them into your existing curriculum without needing extra time or materials!


What educators are saying

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I love these worksheets! I've used this for small-group instruction and independent work. It has really helped my lower readers understand sight words. Awesome product!

— Kathy H.


Sight Word Practice

Student-Focused Resource for Sight Words and Phonics Skills  Build Foundational Skills in Reading and Practice Decoding Words  Phonics Quick Checks for Progress Monitoring  Connect Heart Words to Text

Sight Word Practice

  • Student-Focused Resource for Sight Words and Phonics Skills

  • Build Foundational Skills in Reading and Practice Decoding Words

  • Phonics Quick Checks for Progress Monitoring

  • Connect Heart Words to Text


Why Teach Sight Words by Phonics Skills

Dolch and Fry were sorted by the frequency of words appearing in text. The problem is that these high-frequency words are often taught with other words that follow completely different phonics rules. Instead of teaching sight words by frequency, I have sorted them by phonics skills. Then students can master one spelling rule at a time!

Dolch and Fry were sorted by the frequency of words appearing in text. The problem is that these high-frequency words are often taught with other words that follow completely different phonics rules. Instead of teaching sight words by frequency, I ha

Sight Words By Phonics Skills


What Is Included?

This Sight Word Resource includes 380 pages (and growing) of printable worksheets including practice sheets for each letter combination such as consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) patterns, blends, digraphs, silent letters, long vowels etc. And if 380+ pages isn't enough, there are always more coming as I am constantly adding new content based on customer feedback and requests! Grab a FREE Sample below now!

  • Endless Sight Words (Sight Words will continue to be added to this bundle)

  • Sight Words by Phonics Skills

  • High Frequency Word Practice by Reading targeted Sight Words

  • Word Mapping Sight Words

  • Heart Word Method

  • Write the Sight Words

  • Connect the Sight Word to Text by Reading a Sentence

  • Writing with the Targeted Sight Words


Science of Reading Heart Words

This resource is science-based and includes printable student worksheets and everything you need to successfully teach your students how to develop confidence in reading and writing sight and heart words.

This resource is science-based and includes printable student worksheets and everything you need to successfully teach your students how to develop confidence in reading and writing sight and heart words.

Science of Reading Heart Words


Read Sight Words

Students will be able to read each sight word in isolation and decodable sentence.

Students will be able to read each sight word in isolation and decodable sentence.

Read Sight Words

Write Sight Words

Students will use these sight word worksheets to practice writing sight words. They will write a sentence using the sight word.

Sight Word Worksheets Available Now

High frequency sight words are essential for fluent reading but learning all those words by memory can be overwhelming for some students. Thankfully, you don’t have to sacrifice your lesson plans or spend extra time prepping materials thanks to the Endless Heart Word Worksheet Resource! With 380 pages (and growing!) of NO PREP printables that teach students how to break down irregularly spelled words using phonics rules then only learn the tricky parts by heart, these worksheets are sure to become a staple resource in your classroom! Grab a FREE sample today and see just how easy it is for yourself!

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