Sight or High Frequency Words
Your Student Should Know

What are sight or high frequency words? They are words that your student should know ‘by sight’ for their grade level. Each student should be able to read, write and spell these words. The following is a list of sight/HF words from Kindergarten through 8th grade.

Pre-K sight words:
a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you

Kindergarten sight words:
a, all, and, are, ask, ate, away, but, by, came, can, come, could, day, do, down, every, find, for, from, give, go, good, have, he, help, her, here, how, i, into, is, just, like, little, look, make, many, me, must, my, new, no, now, number, of, off, on, one, only, our, out, over, play, put, said, saw, say, see, she, show, so, some, soon, take, that, the, their, them, then, there, they, this, to, too, up, very, walk, was, we, went, what, when, where, who, will, with, you, your

First grade sight words:
about, after, again, also, another, any, ask, back, because, been, before, black, blue, brown, by, could, day, each, every, find, first, from, funny, give, going, great, had, hers, high, house, how, if, jump, just, keep, kind, know, learn, live, long, many, may, more, much, nice, now, old, only, or, orange, other, over, people, purple, put, rain, right, should, some, than, thank, their, them, then, these, thing, think, use, very, walk, want, way, went, were, when, where, which, white, word, work, would, write, yellow, yes, your, yours

Second grade sight words:
always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, climbed, cold, color, does, don’t, example, eye, fast, feather, first, five, found, gave, goes, great, green, heard, island, its, made, many, off, often, or, pull, read, right, said, science, should, sing, sing, sit, sit, sleep, something, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, water, which, why, wish, woman, women, work, world, would, write, your

Third grade sight words:
above, add, almost, along, always, began, begin, being, below, between, book, both, car, carry, children, city, close, country, cut, don’t, earth, eat, enough, every, example, eyes, face, family, far, father, feet, few, food, four, girl, got, group, grow, hard, head, hear, high, idea, important, it’s, keep, last, late, leave, left, let, life, light, list, might, mile, miss, mountains, near, never, next, night, often, once, open, own, paper, plant, real, river, run, saw, school, sea, second, seem, side, something, sometimes, song, soon, start, state, stop, story, talk, those, thought, together, took, tree, under, until, walk, watch, while, white, without, young

Fourth grade sight words:
action, actually, addition, address, adjective, Africa, agree, aim, alive, alive, allow, although, American, amount, angle, anyway, appear, area, area, army, art, awful, awhile, base, battle, being, belt, beside, bet, bill, blood, broke, business, capital, cause, cell, center, central, century, certain, charge, chart, check, chord, climate, club, colony, column, common, company, compare, complete, compound, condition, consider, consonant, contain, control, copy, correct, cost, cost, court, create, crop, current, deal, death, decimal, demand, describe, design, detail, determine, develop, dictionary, difference, difficult, direct, disease, distance, divide, division, drag, drawing, education, effect, elect, electric, element, eleven, energy, engine, entire, equal, equation, especially, Europe, everybody, exactly, example, exercise, experience, experiment, express, fact, factor, factory, famous, fan, favorite, fear, feed, feeling, figure, flow, force, form, fraction, general, given, government, grade, group, grown, hadn’t, hasn’t, health, heat, history, hospital, however, human, ice, include, increase, indicate, industry, information, instrument, interesting, itself, known, labor, law, lay, least, length, level, library, locate, loud, lovely, major, material, measure, melody, member, metal, method, million, modern, movement, music, nation, national, natural, nearly, necessary, nest, noon, northern, note, noun, numeral, object,, observe, opposite,, oxygen, paragraph, particular, pattern, per, period, person, phrase, plane, planet, plural, poem, police, position, possible, power, president, probably, problem, process, produce, product, program, property, provide, public,, pupil, radio, receive, record, region, replace, report, represent, result, rhythm, rise, save, scale, science, scientist, score, season, seat, section, segment, sense, sentence, separate, serve, service, sheet, short, shown, silent, similar, simple, sincerely, soil, sold, solution, solve, sort, southern, space, spell, spent, squirrel, state, statement, steel, stone, straight, student, study, subject, substance, sudden, suddenly, suffix, suggest, supply, surely, surface, syllable, symbol, system, temperature, term, test, that’s, their, they’re, thus, tone, total, touch, triangle, tube, twelve, twice, type, underline, unit, used, value, various, verb, view, voice, vowel, wasn’t, weight, western, we’re, wheat, whom, within, worker, wouldn’t, written, you’re

Fifth grade sight words:
already, average, apple, Africa, ache, angle, afraid, audience, automobile, army, arrived, antique, autobiography, atmosphere, agreed, Asia, accident, automatic, assembly, arctic, angle, ahead, actually, average, Atlantic, addition, amendment, adjective, amphibians, adaptation, aloud, allowed, bones, bicycle, biceps, bifocal, beach, branched, British, ball, biplane, behavior, binoculars, board, border, brake, belong, consider, chart, crops, cotton, cook, church, column, chief, cows, current, constitution, cube, cent, corner, column, compare, compound, charter, capital, convection, company, cotton, cook, compare, composition, conservation, cylinder, compound, consumers, constellation, colonies, citizen, congress, capitol, capital, canoes, cone, corn, chemical, classify, conditions, conduction, community, doesn’t, difficult, determine, doctor, details, death, debate, difficult, drought, diameter, decide, diagnose, deform, decimal, dividend, decay, diagonal, diameter, democracy, district, division, dialogue, depression, direction, deals, dead, deceive, dollars, electric, extraterrestrial, extrasensory, explode, extreme, extent, expect, economy, exit, effect, elements, equator, equal, earthquake, emergency, electricity, executive, equivalent, elevate, export, extraordinary, evening, extracurricular, expense, equator, experience, especially, eight, extinct, entered, enquire, except, enable, emotional, expect, equally, elevation, entire, error, erode, exciting, explorer, eastern, fun, fresh, fruit, France, federal, factories, fir, fur, fig, factors, fraction, forward, fit, fault, famous, freedom, Greek, guess, gun, governor, geography, hit, huge, horizontal, it’s, isn’t, its, import, industry, introductory, identify, insects, interesting, indicate, invertebrates, insulator, industry, judicial, Japanese, knight, latitude, longitude, level, lunar, legislature, lifted, located, loud, loose, list, material, movement, microphone, microbe, measurement, mourning, major, match, microscope, microfilm, modern, mine, meat,nutrition, nutrients, northern, national, neighbor, night, nose, necessary, not,occupation, observe, office, oxygen, opposite,preamble, physical, punctuation, producers, plural, petition, prospector, particular, printed, property, population, Pacific, prepared, pretty, precaution, prefix, pause, piece, position, process, prairie, prejudice, perimeter, percentage, plants, provide, principle, principal, pore, pain, pane, peace,quail, quotient, qualify, quantity, quiet, quite, quality, quite, paws, public,reflect, revision, repeated, rhythm, remainder, recall, retract, repay, request, route, radius, radiation, rich, rather, root, rope,strength, sequence, substance, smell, safe, send, settled, sight, silent, southern, stream, shoes, solar, shoulder, southern, solution, similar, stretched, supply, suggested, substances, structure, solution, sleigh, segment, soldiers, steel, scent, slay, stake, science, sugar, similar, score, shop, suffix,triangle, tissue, track, trade, tail, tone, tied, thus, thermometer, thin, terms, toe, tube, tools, tow, taxes, total,university, unicorn, underline, unicycle, unique,vertebrates, volcano, vitamins, veto, view, various, vegetation, vertical, voyage, Washington, weather, wouldn’t, western, wasn’t, wade, weight, weather, won’t, win, wrong, weighed, yellow

Sixth grade sight words:
Africa, Antarctic, Antarctica, Arctic, Asia, Australia, Europe, Europe, North America, South America, ablution, abyss, accommodate, accuracy, accurate, acquaint, acquaintance, adapt, adjective, advantage, adverb, affect, affectation, air force, alert, allege, allegiance, altitude, amaze, ambassador, analyze, ancestor, annual, apologize, apology, apostate, appropriate, approximate, arena, army, artisan, aspire, attest, audience, audio, avenge, avid, avidity, begrudge, beneficial, benefit, biannual, bivouac, blanch, blanched, blanches, blanching, botany, boundaries, boundary, bright, brighter, brightest, brilliant, buttercup, cantaloupe, catamount, cauliflower, cease, chandelier, change, character, characteristic, chauffeur, chisel, chiseled, chocolate, chore, civil, civilization, civilize, clarify, clear, colonel, combust, combustible, combustion, commence, commend, commerce, commercial, commit, committee, communicate, communication, competence, competent, complain, complaining, complainingly, complement, complete, complex, comrade, condescend, condescension, congeal, congratulate, congress, conscience, conscienceless, conscientious, conscientiousness, conspiracy, conspirator, conspire, construct, construction, contagion, contagious, contempt, contemptuous, continent, contradict, control, controllable, convene, conversation, converse, cougar, counterfeit, create, crisp, critical, crop, cropped, cropping, crops, crystal, culpable, cultural, culture, curiosity, curious, decide, decision, deep, deference, denominate, denomination, denominator, depth, descend, describe, description, descriptive, desert, desiccant, dessert, diagonal, diameter, digest, digestible, disappoint, disaster, discern, discerned, discernible, discerning, discerns, discipline, disciplined, disciplines, disciplining, dispensable, dispensary, dispensation, dispensatory, dispense, dissension, dissent, diverse, drama, dramatic, dramatically, dust, eagle, eaglet, economic, economical, economically, economy, ecstasy, effect, effect, effective, effi efficacious, effi efficiency, efficacy, efficient, electrons, eliminate, embarrass, embarrassed, embarrasses, embarrassing, embarrassment, embassy, emigrate, emigration, employ, employee, enamel, endeavor, enormous, enthuse, enthused, enthuses, enthusiasm, enthusing, episode, equal, equality, equation, equator, equatorial, especially, essence, essential, event, eventual, eventually, exaggerate, exaggerated, exaggerates, exaggerating, exchange, exist, existence, expense, expensive, expire, explain, explanation, exploration, explore, explorer, extend, extension, extensive, extent, exterior, factory, factory, falter, faltered, faltering, falteringly, falters, familiar, familiarity, family, fancied, fancies, fancy, fancying, fangs, fantasia, fantasy, fatigue, fatigued, fatigues, fatiguing, feline, fierce, finance, financed, finances, financial, financing, flit, flits, flitting, fore, formal, forth, fraction, fractional, friend, front, frontier, gorgeous, gouged, govern, government, governmental, governor, grit, guarantee, guard, guitar, hollyhock, horizon, horizontal, humor, humored, humoring, humorous, humors, illiterate, imagination, immediate, immense, immigrant, immigrate, immigration, impending, implement, impress, impression, impressive, incessant, inconvenient, industrial, industry, ingenious, insinuate, inspire, intelligence, intelligent, intend, interior, interpret, introduce, introduced, introduction, introductory, invent, invention, invisible, irritable, jaguar, judge, judgment, judgmental, kaleidoscope, knack, later, latitude, latitudinal, league, leap, leapt, leopard, letter, lieutenant, literal, literally, literate, literature, loath, longitude, longitudinal, low, lowliness, lowly, lullaby, machination, machine, machinery, magazine, magnifi cent, maintain, maintenance, make, manifold, manner, mannerisms, manual, manufacture, manufacturing, mar, marina, marine, marines, math, mathematic, mathematical, media, medium, memorable, memorial, memorize, memory, memory, mental, mentality, mentally, merciful, mercifully, mercy, military, militia, million, millionaire, mind, mirror, miscellaneous, miscellany, mischief, mischievous, mistake, momentum, monitor, mortgage, mountain lion, multiple, multitude, multitudinous, municipal, muse, museum, music, musician, name, nature, navy, negate, negative, nerve, nervous, nervousness, neutral, nominate, number, numeral, numerator, numerical, numerous, occasion, occasional, occasionally, occur, occurrence, operate, operation, operator, orchestra, orchid, palsy, panther, parallel, parent, parental, parley, parliament, peculiar, penal, penalty, percent, percentage, perched, perform, performance, periscope, permanent, perpendicular, perpetual, persevere, phonograph, physic, physician, physics, pneumonia, porcelain, posit, position, positive, precipice, precipitous, preliminary, present, present, presented, presenting, presently, presents, press, pretense, previous, primarily, primary, prime, primitive, principle, privilege, profess, profession, professional, professionally, proficiency, proficient, project, projection, projector, prophesied, prophesies, prophesy, prophesying, prophet, psalmody, pulsate, pulsation, pulse, qualities, quality, receipt, recipe, recommend, recommend, recommendation, record, recorded, recording, records, refl reflected, reflect, reflecting, reflection, reflects, refrain, refrained, refraining, refrains, regal, registered, relate, relation, relationship, remember, remembrance, rendezvous, repeal, repealed, repealing, repeals, represent, representative, reprieve, reproach, research, resemblance, resemble, resist, resistance, resolute, resolution, responsible, restaurant, retinue, retinue, reveille, reverie, rhapsody, rhinoceros, rhubarb, rinse, route, routine, royal, saber, salmon, satisfaction, satisfactory, satisfied, satisfies, satisfy, satisfying, scarce, scarcely, scheme, science, scope, scribe, seclude, seize, seized, seizes, seizing, select, selection, selfish, senate, senator, sentinel, series, shatter, sheath, sheathes, shelf, shelves, shied, shies, shy, shying, simple, simplicity, simplification, simplified, simplify, sneer, solicitude, sooth, souvenir, sovereign, special, species, spectacle, spectator, spindle, spirit, spiritual, stealth, stealthily, stealthy, submarine, suffice, sufficient, sufficiently, suffuse, suffused, suffuses, suffusing, superintendent, surgeon, syllabicate, syllabication, syllable, syllables, symphony, tact, talent, tech, technical, technique, technology, telescope, temporary, tend, tender, terrace, terrain, territorial, territory, testament, testified, testifies, testify, testifying, testimonial, testimony, theory, thorough, thoroughly, though, thought, through, throughout, timid, tingle, toddle, tortoise, towering, tranquil, tranquility, transpire, treachery, treason, treaty, tremendous, triennial, turtle, type, typical, uncomplainingly, uncontrollable, unique, universal, universality, universe, university, unmercifully, usurp, vacuum, vague, vaguely, vantage, verdure, vertical, vertices, vibrant, victor, victorious, victory, violence, violent, virtue, virtuoso, visible, vision, visor, volunteer, vow, waistcoat, ward, warder, woolens, xylophone

Seventh grade sight words:
apart, according, appear, ate, angry, army, average, alive, accept, bread, bill, blow, broke, band, breakfast, bag, breath, burn, bus, cotton, compare, careful, chair, column, count, chief, clothes, church, crowd, cabin, camp, company, coat, current, cent, cook, captain, community, drop, dinner, dance, doctor, develop, dear, divide, double, dress, danger, die, drink, drove, east, experimfearent, enjoy, entire, express, expect, experience, everybody, electricity, experience, fear, forth, farmer, familiar, final, fair, fruit, flower, flew, finger, future, finish, further, guide, hurt, hill, hungry, herself, indeed, imagine, join, jump, knowledge, liquid, laid, loud, lie, law, latch, match, mine, market, motion, myself, month, met, mental, movement, nature, nine, nation, neither, northern, noise, neck, oxygen, onto, original, plain, poem, population, provide, pound, proud, push, proper, purpose, pressure, particular, public, path, process, protect, quick, raise, rate, regular, represent, rise, report, rope, rose, seat, sell, steam, solution, stage, shook, station, stream, strength, southern, share, season, shoulder, star, solid, supply, surprise, slow, statement, sister, string, solve, spot, shop, sing, separate, spend, speech, salt, steel, shore, spoke, sell, throughout, touch, truck, twice, television, twenty, till, twelve, tomorrow, usual, unless, useful, valley, variety, worth, we're, wooden, wheel, wire

Eighth grade sight words:
audience, apartment, ability, arrange, arrived, avoid, actually, agree, accident, avenue, altogether, activities, article, available, attached, address, apply, author, account, allowed, angle, affect, baseball, beneath, belong, bottle, barbecue, balance, bicycle, climbed, continue, consider, charge, climate, coffee, chapter, construction, courage, concern, conversation, citizen, college, couple, connect, character, collect, condition, convince, cancel, council, combine, dozen, dollars, determined, dictionary, disease, daughter, daily, disappear, design, details, discuss, dangerous, evidence, environment, education, exactly, excited, escape, enemy, entered, excellent, employee, equipment, extra, event, flight, forget, function, frozen, frighten, factory, furniture, frequently, feather, foreign, fifty, favorite, groceries, garage, hospital, healthy, height, husband, immediately, identity, indicate, industry, individual, influence, increase, insects, instance, improve, instrument, knife, library, license, lose, leather, located, leader, laugh, message, motor, married, model, medicine, magazine, muscles, mistake, neighbor, nobody, newspaper, ordinary, occur, offered, operation, organize, observe, opportunity, police, popular, potatoes, president, planet, peace, prevent, project, pronounce, physical, principal, personal, parents, political, progress, perfect, program, pencil, prepare, quarter, quality, rubber, recommend, rhythm, realize, recently, recognize, receive, rough, remain, railroad, required, repeat, review, symbol, support, social, standard, stomach, situation, service, students, sincerely, secret, soldier, silent, structure, spelling, swimming, suggested, settled, serious, style, success, they're, terrible, transportation, tongue, title, thank, threw, telephone, traffic, vegetable, waste, worse, whisper, whenever, yesterday