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