Color by Sight Word Worksheets for First Graders (Free PDF Printables)
Help your first grader get familiar with high-frequency words (the words that appear most frequently in text), which are also known as sight words. These sight word worksheets offer three levels of difficulty, with each level featuring more words to recognize and smaller shapes to color.
As children work on these sight word printables, they’ll need to use the Sight Word Color Key on each worksheet to match sight words hidden in a picture to a certain color, filling in a drawing as they go. Choose the worksheet level that matches your child’s abilities and gradually move on to more challenging levels as they’re ready.
Our Beginner 1st Grade Color by Sight Words Worksheets use several high-frequency words to help guide your child in coloring in a picture. These worksheets feature simpler images and fewer words.
Our Challenge Color by Sight Words Worksheets feature more high-frequency words and slightly more detailed drawings for your child to color.
The Super Challenge level of our Color by Sight Words Worksheets use a higher volume of first grade high-frequency words and a more intricate image.
How Color by Sight Word Worksheets Can Help
Sight words are also known as high-frequency words because they’re the words that appear most frequently in the text children see. Because sight words don’t always follow phonetic rules, they can be trickier to decipher and pronounce. Parents are encouraged to work with their child to put letter sounds to each letter and decode the word. Use our tips on teaching sight words to help you get started.
These worksheets include both high-frequency words and general word recognition. As your child begins using these worksheets, it can be helpful to have an adult nearby to guide them in correctly identifying and pronouncing the words the first time they use the worksheets.
As children work towards mastering the words featured in the worksheets, they can apply that knowledge to their reading and work to identify these new words in books, magazines, and more. Learning high-frequency words can often help children feel more confident in their reading abilities as they grow their word recognition and comprehension skills.
More Fun Ideas for Your Color by Sight Words Worksheets
As your child practices their word recognition skills with our sight word worksheets, consider trying these ideas to help enhance learning:
- Puzzle Picture: Cut the finished pictures into pieces like a puzzle. (You can glue them to cardboard first if you like.) Save the pieces in individual baggies, and you’ll have a bunch of new puzzles!
- Sight Word Poem: Use the words found in the picture to write a poem about what’s happening in the image. This is a great way to work on rhyming words too.
- Read Aloud: Before your child starts coloring, ask them to try reading each word on their own. Help them sound out words they may be struggling with. This post on teaching new sight words can help.
What Sight Words Do These Worksheets Cover?
Here is a list of all the sight words that you can find in these bundles of printable worksheets.
⭐ Max and Gabby Worksheet
The Max and Gabby worksheets feature the following high frequency words: most, round, use, old, your, very, were, give, before.
⭐ Tropical Birds Worksheet
The Tropical Birds worksheets feature the following high frequency words: how, or, as, her, stop, may.
⭐ Austin the Explorer Worksheets
The Austin the Explorer worksheets feature the following high frequency words: more, other, walk, these, open, some, once, which.
⭐ The Statue of Liberty Worksheets
The Statue of Liberty worksheets feature the following high frequency words: walk, think, again, once, long, people, would, which.
⭐ Lightning Worksheets
The Lightning worksheets feature the following high frequency words: much, know, long, many, each, thank, people, know.
⭐ Beach Worksheets
The Beach worksheets feature the following high frequency words: long, know, much, which, about, been, mother, called, of.
⭐ Fish with Pavati
The Fish with Pavati worksheets feature the following high frequency words: words, been, only, of, would, about, called, mother, which.
Keep Learning!
For more 1st Grade sight word fun, check out:
Free 1st Grade printable sight word list or Fun and Engaging 1st Grade Sight Word Activities!
