High-Frequency & Sight Words IEP Goals
Browse CCS aligned IEP goals for high frequency words and sight words for K-3rd grade. See tips on how to make the goals work for your students!
IEP Goals for Sight Words
These kinder to 3rd grade sight word IEP goals are all CCS aligned and ready for you to customize for your students! Unfortunately, the Common Core does not have sight word standards past 3rd grade. If your student still needs them, you can use any of the K-3rd goals and just leave out the standard!
Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3c
- The Common Core is agnostic on which sight words list you use. Some of the more common (and easily available online) lists are the Dolch and Seeing Stars.
- Once you have chosen a sight words program, you can start assessing students. For the youngest students, you just want to know if they know any (and if so which!) sight words. For older students who are still emerging readers, it’s helpful to start with the first list and check for any missing sight words. If they are missing just one or two, it can be easy to integrate those into group and to focus any IEP goals on the more advanced lists.
Need more ideas? Check out the PreK-2 Reading Present Levels and Assessments Resource page.
Looking for assessment resources or support with turning assessments into goals and present levels? Check out the IEP Success Kit in the store!
Susan knows 12 letter sounds and the sight word “I.”
For more baseline ideas, check out the IEP Success Kit!
- ______ will read 15 common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does) as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3c
The main modification here is to the number of sight words. Sight words assessments typically take a while and so you want to avoid “three of four trials” or similar language if at all possible!
- Increase or decrease the number of sight words
- ______ will read 12 common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does) as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3c
- Seeing Stars has 25 words in each set so 25 words is the first list: ______ will read 25 common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does) as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3c
- Dolch has 40 on its PreK list so 40 is mastering that list– and the K list is 52 words:______ will read 40 common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does) as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3c
Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3g
- The Common Core is agnostic on which sight words list you use. Some of the more common (and easily available online) lists are the Dolch and Seeing Stars.
- Once you have chosen a sight words program, you can start assessing students. For the youngest students, you just want to know if they know any (and if so which!) sight words. For older students who are still emerging readers, it’s helpful to start with the first list and check for any missing sight words. If they are missing just one or two, it can be easy to integrate those into group and to focus any IEP goals on the more advanced lists.
Need more ideas? Check out the PreK-2 Reading Present Levels and Assessments Resource page.
Looking for assessment resources or support with turning assessments into goals and present levels? Check out the IEP Success Kit in the store!
Susan knows 12 letter sounds and the sight word “I.”
For more baseline ideas, check out the IEP Success Kit!
- _______ will recognize and read irregularly spelled words as demonstrated by correctly reading 30 words from a sight words list such as the Dolch Pre-Primer list or the Seeing Stars list and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3g
The main modification here is to the number of sight words. Sight words assessments typically take a while and so you want to avoid “three of four trials” or similar language if at all possible!
- Increase or decrease the number of sight words
- _______ will recognize and read irregularly spelled words as demonstrated by correctly reading 20 words from a sight words list such as the Dolch Pre-Primer list or the Seeing Stars list and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3g
- Seeing Stars has 25 words in each set so 25 words is the first list: _______ will recognize and read irregularly spelled words as demonstrated by correctly reading 50 words from a sight words list such as the Dolch Pre-Primer list or the Seeing Stars list and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3g
- Dolch has 40 on its PreK list so 40 is mastering that list– and the K list is 52 words: _______ will recognize and read irregularly spelled words as demonstrated by correctly reading 92 words from a sight words list such as the Dolch Pre-Primer list or the Seeing Stars list and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3g
Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3f
- The Common Core is agnostic on which sight words list you use. Some of the more common (and easily available online) lists are the Dolch and Seeing Stars.
- Once you have chosen a sight words program, you can start assessing students. For the youngest students, you just want to know if they know any (and if so which!) sight words. For older students who are still emerging readers, it’s helpful to start with the first list and check for any missing sight words. If they are missing just one or two, it can be easy to integrate those into group and to focus any IEP goals on the more advanced lists.
Need more ideas? Check out the 2nd-5th Grade Reading Present Levels and Assessments Resource page or the PreK-2 Reading Present Levels and Assessments Resource page.
Looking for assessment resources or support with turning assessments into goals and present levels? Check out the IEP Success Kit in the store!
Joe knows 16 of the 40 Dolch PrePrimer words and 5 of the 52 Dolch Primer words.
For more baseline ideas, check out the IEP Success Kit!
- _______ will recognize and read first grade level irregularly spelled words as demonstrated by correctly reading 30 words from a sight words list such as the Dolch Grade 1 list and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3f
The main modification here is to the number of sight words. Sight words assessments typically take a while and so you want to avoid “three of four trials” or similar language if at all possible!
- Increase or decrease the number of sight words
- _______ will recognize and read grade level irregularly spelled words as demonstrated by correctly reading 30 words from a sight words list such as the Dolch Grade 2 list and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3f
- _______ will recognize and read Kinder and First grade level irregularly spelled words as demonstrated by correctly reading 60 words from sight words lists such as the Dolch Kinder and Grade 1 lists and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3f
Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3d
- The Common Core is agnostic on which sight words list you use. Some of the more common (and easily available online) lists are the Dolch and Seeing Stars.
- Once you have chosen a sight words program, you can start assessing students. For the youngest students, you just want to know if they know any (and if so which!) sight words. For older students who are still emerging readers, it’s helpful to start with the first list and check for any missing sight words. If they are missing just one or two, it can be easy to integrate those into group and to focus any IEP goals on the more advanced lists.
Need more ideas? Check out the 2nd-5th Grade Reading Present Levels and Assessments Resource page.
Looking for assessment resources or support with turning assessments into goals and present levels? Check out the IEP Success Kit in the store!
Joe knows 31 of the 40 Dolch PrePrimer words and 28 of the 52 Dolch Primer words.
For more baseline ideas, check out the IEP Success Kit!
- _____ will read first grade level irregularly spelled words as demonstrated by reading 40 words from a first grade sight words list such as the Dolch Grade 1 list and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3d
The main modification here is to the number of sight words and their level. While the standard is for grade level site words, I often find that third graders who need to work on site words need to master the lower lists first. Sight words assessments typically take a while and so you want to avoid “three of four trials” or similar language if at all possible!
- Increase or decrease the number of sight words
- _____ will read second grade level irregularly spelled words as demonstrated by reading 40 words from a second grade sight words list such as the Dolch Grade 2 list and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3d
- _____ will read first and second grade level irregularly spelled words as demonstrated by reading 70 words from first and second grade word lists such as the Dolch Grade 1 and 2 list and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3d
- _____ will read grade level irregularly spelled words as demonstrated by reading 40 words from a third grade sight words list such as the Dolch Grade 3 list and as measured by teacher records and observations CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3d
