This set of challenging reading sight words online activities focuses on the following foundational skills:

• Reading Sight Words
• Recognizing General Spelling Patterns (silent e, common digraphs, r-controlled vowels)
• Sounding Out Four Letter Words
• Reading Words Using Word Families (chunks)

This set goes beyond kindergarten standards.

Games linked from this page practice Common Core Standards:

• K.RF.2.e – Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
• K.RF.3.b – Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
• K.RF.3.c – Read common high-frequency words by sight
• K.RF.3.d – Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
• RF.1.2.b – Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends. (1st Grade)
• RF.1.3.a – Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs. (1st Grade)
• RF.1.3.c – Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds. (1st Grade)
• RF.1.3.g – Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. (1st Grade)