Sight word assessment template

Sight words are words that are used frequently in reading and writing. Because these words are used so often, it is important that readers are able to recognize them quickly without having to sound them out. It is estimated that these words make up between 50
-70% of the words we encounter in text.

Learning to read sight words is an important part of developing fluency and automaticity as a reader, because sight words appear frequently in a variety of texts. Begin by assessing your students’ existing knowledge of sight words.

These assessments are used to determine how well a student reads high-frequency English words. High-frequency words are words that occur so frequently in printed text that it is most efficient for children to learn to read them automatically, by “sight,” rather than by decoding or sounding them out.