116 Basic Sight Words (By Kelly Mikesell)

These are words that native speaking English children first learn to read. ESL students can use this video for pronunciation practice. Beginning students can also use it for reading practice.

a, am, an, and, are, at, away, big, blue, box, bug, can, come, cut, down, find, for, funny, go, have, he, help, here, hot, I, in, is, it, jump, like, little, look, make, me, my, not, on, one, pet, play, red, run, said, see, she, sit, ten, the, three, to, two, up, us, we, where, yellow,

These are a bit harder.

you, after, again, all, ate, any, be, black, brown, but, by, came, could, did, do, eat, every, four, get, good, into, just, know, let, live, must. new, no, now, of, once, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, so, soon, take, thank, that, them, then, there, they, think, this, too, under, want, well, went, what, white, who, will, with,