Color by Sight Word Worksheets for Kindergarteners (Free PDF Printables)
Help boost your kindergartener’s word recognition skills with the worksheets included in this collection. These worksheets come in three different challenge levels and offer a playful twist on learning, inviting children to color in a variety of pictures built around sight words, which are also known as high-frequency words.
For all levels of these worksheets, children will use the Sight Word Color Key to color in a picture. Pick the level of worksheets that you feel best suits your child, and increase challenge levels as their skills progress.
Our Beginner Kindergarten 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 kindergarten high-frequency words and a more intricate image.
How Color by Sight Word Worksheets Can Help
Sight word recognition can aid in reading fluency and comprehension and often applies to words that children see repeatedly in books and eventually, after first learning to decode them, will learn to recognize on sight. Because sight words, also known as high-frequency 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 your child works towards mastering the words featured in the worksheets, they can apply that knowledge to their reading and 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 Ideas for Your Color by Sight Word Worksheets
As your child practices their word recognition skills with our sight word worksheets, consider trying these ideas to help enhance learning:
- Coloring Writing: First, have kids sound out or identify each word and find the crayon that matches it. Ask them to write each word in the correct crayon color. Then they can color the pictures independently.
- Magnetic Spelling: Hang a finished picture on your fridge using alphabet magnets that spell out one of the words used in the image.
- Puzzle Picture: Follow the lines in the image to cut it into pieces, creating your own puzzle. As your child puts the picture back together, encourage them to the say the words out loud as they slide the pieces together.
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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.
⭐ Anteater Worksheets
Our anteater worksheets feature the following words: am, at, be, do, he, and on.
⭐ Camel Worksheets
You’ll find the following words in the camel worksheets: brown, they, that, want, well, and went.
⭐ Impala Worksheets
The impala worksheets includes the following words: all, ate, are, but, no, and so.
⭐ Monkey Worksheets
Our monkey worksheets feature these words: did, eat, get, new, now, and our.
⭐ Ostrich Worksheets
These worksheets feature the following words: have, into, like, must, ride, and soon.
⭐ Toucan Worksheets
You’ll find the following words in the toucan worksheets: out, ran, saw, say, she, and too.
⭐ Gorilla Worksheets
The gorilla worksheets include this list of words: please, pretty, there, under, and white.
⭐ Lion Worksheets
You’ll find the following words in the lion worksheets: came, four, good, was, who, and yes.
⭐ Zebra Worksheets
These worksheets feature this list of words: black, this, what, will, and with.
Keep Learning!
For more Kindergarten sight word fun, check out:
Free Kindergarten printable sight word list or 10 Fun and Engaging Kindergarten Sight Word Activities!
