First Grade Sight Words and First Grade Spelling Words

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First Grade students working on their sight words and their spelling words

Our First Grade sight words and First Grade spelling words are broken down into a scope and sequence across 36 weeks to take you from the first day of school, through the whole school year.

The curriculum progresses as follows:

Weeks 1-3: CVC words
Weeks 4-6: CVCe words
Weeks 7-9: Word blends
Weeks 10-12: Open syllable words
Weeks 13-15: Glued sounds
Weeks 16-18: Double consonant words
Weeks 19-21: Long vowel teams
Weeks 22-24: R-controlled vowel words
Weeks 25-27: Dipthongs
Weeks 28-30: Final syllable -le words 11: Weeks 31-36: Suffixes/prefixes

Each week contains 12 words and 3 bonus words.

These words align with the following standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.2
Next Generation Learning Standards: NGLS ELA.1.L.2

Generate customized spelling and phonics worksheets with these words

Do you want to generate worksheets for flash cards, sound sorts, pattern sorts, “Draw and Label” worksheets, “Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check” worksheets, “Trace, Copy, Cover, Write” worksheets, word hunt, and more?

Simply find the word list you want to use below, then tap on “Generate Worksheet” to get started. This will take you to Worksheet Creator.

You then pick the worksheet template you want to use, edit your list of words, and generate your worksheet.

Then, print, download, or share your worksheet.

Online spelling tests for First Grade sight words and First Grade spelling words

Do you want to provide digital spelling tests on these words? Spelling Test Buddy lets you use any or all of these word lists as a part of your spelling curriculum.

Simply log in and navigate to 📓 Word Lists. Create or Edit a list, and when given the option to add words, from the “Pick a word list” dropdown, select First Grade to start.

You can see a sample for each word list by tapping on “Sample spelling test” below.

Word Lists

Week	Word lists	Words	Actions
1	CVC words	cat, hat, bat, rat, sat, mat, map, tap, cap, lap, dad, bad, is, it, in	Generate worksheet
2	CVC words	bed, red, fed, led, shed, web, ten, pen, hen, men, get, wet, see, for, look	Generate worksheet
3	CVC words	much, such, luck, duck, buck, stuck, hum, sum, gum, drum, hug, rug, you, was, two	Generate worksheet
4	CVCe words	hike, bike, like, spike, make, take, wake, bake, cake, rake, safe, wave, play, said, away	Generate worksheet
5	CVCe words	rate, gate, late, mate, date, hate, fate, made, wade, fade, cave, save, what, they, went	Generate worksheet
6	CVCe words	those, these, vote, note, bone, tone, home, joke, poke, woke, fuse, mute, came, make, here	Generate worksheet
7	Consonant R	brag, drag, flag, crag, trap, strap, drip, trip, grip, crop, drop, frog, very, your, work	Generate worksheet
8	Consonant L	flip, clip, slip, flop, plop, slop, flat, slat, clap, glad, bled, fled, good, have, live	Generate worksheet
9	Blends	stop, step, stun, spin, spot, spit, skip, scat, scan, snap, snip, slam, read, give, many	Generate worksheet
10	Open Syllable E	he, me, we, she, be, the, so, go, no, zebra, even, open, blue, five, where	Generate worksheet
11	Open Syllable O	no, so, go, to, veto, zero, over, broken, token, robin, local, motor, does, want, once	Generate worksheet
12	Open Syllable	spider, tiger, pilot, paper, table, music, baby, tiny, lady, bacon, seven, broken, could, would, their	Generate worksheet
13	Glued sounds	sang, rang, bang, hang, fang, pang, bank, rank, tank, thank, sank, plank, four, from, word	Generate worksheet
14	Glued sounds	rung, hung, sung, stung, flung, trunk, drunk, spunk, blink, clink, think, shrink, says, large, there	Generate worksheet
15	Glued sounds	pink, sink, wink, link, mink, chink, stink, thank, think, clink, chunk, trunk, with, were, small	Generate worksheet
16	Double L	cell, sell, tell, well, bell, fell, yell, smell, spell, swell, shell, will, brown, before, always	Generate worksheet
17	Double F	stuff, buff, cuff, gruff, muff, puff, sniff, stiff, cliff, whiff, riff, skiff, about, around, mother	Generate worksheet
18	Double S	kiss, miss, bliss, hiss, fuss, muss, loss, boss, toss, cross, dress, press, first, after, father	Generate worksheet
19	Long EA/EE	tree, free, three, see, bee, flee, read, bead, lead, seat, meat, heat, right, animal, another	Generate worksheet
20	Long AI/AY	brain, train, rain, chain, gain, pain, main, plain, stain, play, stay, gray, because, children, follow	Generate worksheet
21	Long OA/OE	coat, boat, float, goat, moat, throat, soap, load, road, toe, hoe, foe, people, picture, should	Generate worksheet
22	R-controlled AR	car, far, star, jar, scar, spar, dark, park, bark, mark, farm, barn, friend, together, through	Generate worksheet
23	R-controlled OR	torn, worn, born, corn, horn, morn, for, or, store, more, sore, bore, little, family, thought	Generate worksheet
24	R-controlled IR, UR, ER	her, bird, perk, fern, term, verb, stir, girl, whirl, burn, turn, hurt, myself, number, school	Generate worksheet
25	Diphthongs OI, OY	toy, ploy, joy, boy, coy, annoy, boil, coil, foil, soil, broil, spoil, wherever, something, beautiful	Generate worksheet
26	Diphthongs AU, AW	jaw, haunt, claw, draw, flaw, gnaw, law, paw, raw, saw, straw, taut, woman, however, together	Generate worksheet
27	Diphthongs OU, OW	pow, shout, cow, how, now, plow, grow, flow, slow, show, snow, blow, world, because, anything	Generate worksheet
28	Final Syllable LE	able, cable, fable, table, stable, gable, apple, simple, triple, nibble, scribble, wobble, great, again, country	Generate worksheet
29	Final Syllable LE	paddle, saddle, fiddle, candle, handle, bundle, kettle, bottle, rattle, middle, riddle, pickle, write, answer, question	Generate worksheet
30	Final Closed Syllable LE	jungle, angle, single, dangle, mangle, tangle, sprinkle, crinkle, twinkle, candle, handle, table, important, information, together	Generate worksheet
31	Suffix ED	tricked, kicked, picked, licked, wicked, cooked, booked, looked, hooked, called, pulled, hauled, different, important, understand	Generate worksheet
32	Suffix S, ES	jumps, boxes, hops, stops, drops, ships, washes, brushes, crashes, fixes, mixes, taxes, sentence, describe, question	Generate worksheet
33	Suffix ING	running, jumping, playing, eating, sleeping, reading, singing, talking, walking, writing, cooking, looking, especially, sometimes, therefore	Generate worksheet
34	Prefix RE	redo, reset, remake, retake, rewrite, reread, repaint, repack, relive, retry, rewind, restart, complete, continue, determine	Generate worksheet
35	Prefix MIS	mistake, misplace, misspell, misread, miscount, mislead, misinform, misunderstand, misbehave, misjudge, mismatch, misquote, consider, carefully, remember	Generate worksheet
36	Prefix UN	unwell, unpack, unlike, unhappy, unfair, unfit, unsafe, unsure, unable, untie, undo, untrue, believe, probably, surprise	Generate worksheet