Sight word songs for kids

The Best Sight Word Videos that will Engage Every Student

Videos are a truly engaging way to teach and reinforce skills that require a ton of repetition and practice to master. When I think lots of repetition: I think SIGHT WORDS. Can we ever have enough practice? I rounded up the best sight word videos so that you don’t have to!

Quickly recognizing and reading sight words and high frequency words is such an important skill for new readers. The most common 100 sight words make up 50% of any text! For our new readers, that percentage is much, much higher.

Teaching sight words and high frequency words can be challenging because it requires so much repetition. We practice and practice (and practice some more), and even then, some students still don’t quite grasp it.

Then one day, as if a switch has been turned on, they remember them! It’s kind of a magical process. 🦄

But I know it can be exhausting (and frustrating), too. These videos are meant to supplement other sight word instruction to add another layer to your instruction. No matter what list you use, there are videos here to help you out. 👏

Note: Did you know there is a difference between sight words and high frequency words? You can read more about that here!

Miss Molly’s Sight Word Videos Playlist

I think of Miss Molly as the queen of sight word videos. ? This playlist has SEVENTY ONE sight word songs! 😳🥳

Each one covers a different sight word. Each video says the word and spells it several times. It also puts the word into several sentences with visuals.

I especially love these videos because the music is very calming so it won’t hype kids up. 😅 Miss Molly is a go-to for me in my classroom!

Heidi Songs Sight Word Videos Playlist

Like Miss Molly, Heidi Songs has a ton of sight word videos. This playlist has 32 sight words songs that students enjoy to sing and dance along with.

The videos spell the word, say the word alone and in a sentence several times. There are fun actions that go along with the words and they are very catchy. (So catchy, you may find yourself lying awake at night with them running through your head. 🤪)

Meet the Sight Words

Preschool Prep Company has several sight word videos on YouTube that my students really enjoy. The one I have linked is a 30 minute video that I show in pieces as we learn new words in my classroom. It introduces and reinforces several of the most common sight words.

Each word has a short video that lasts about 45 seconds. The letters of the word make up part of the picture and are characters in the shorts story. While the word is said over and over again, it is never spelled out verbally or put into a sentence.

I build understanding by asking my students why the word is doing that action or in that place. In that way, this video is more of an interactive experience in my classroom.

For example, the word “play” is playing baseball. Students can make the connection between the word and what it is doing. I also ask them to look at the word and spell it.

The Sight Word Song

Harry Kindergarten’s sight word song is a favorite for many. The song is catchy, it spells the word and reads it.

This song covers many of the most common sight words so students get the repetition that will help them memorize the words. My kids love, love, love to sing along with this song.

New Sight Words with Jack Hartmann

This Jack Hartmann videos shows the letters, says them and then says the word. It pauses the second time through so that students have the chance to read the word on their own.

Kids love this silly video and it’s catchy tune. They will have the words in it memorized in no time!

Sight Word Rap with Jack Hartmann

This Jack Hartmann video is similar to the previous one but with a different tune and different words! He says the letters and then reads the words. It says the word several times as the word flashes on the screen giving great repetition.

If you students are like mine, they will think Jack Hartmann “rapping” is HILARIOUS and super silly. They’ll also pick it up really quick and rap it back and forth to each other. 😅

Kindergarten High Frequency Words

I think this video is a.dor.a.ble. It is a teacher made video with students reading a word and then saying it in a sentence. The words are on the screen as well so students can see them.

My students LOVE hearing other kids reading to them. The first time we watched this video, they were in awe. When I told them we could make a video just like it, they were super excited.

We made our own video in the spring once we had a good handle on many sight words. Each student chose a word and created a simple sentence for them. I typed each word and sentence on it’s own slide in a powerpoint.

If you want to make a video like this, it is really easy! All you have to do is create a powerpoint, video the powerpoint and let the students read the words.

This list of videos includes many of my student’s favorite videos as well as channels that have tons of videos for individual sight words. Did I include your favorite? Let me know below! 👇

Do you need hands on practice for your students, too? I know the lists of words and number that need to be memorized varies hugely from district to district and from state to state.

That’s why I created this super magical resource! These Editable Sight Word Printables can be customized to any list without any formatting or special fonts downloaded. All you do is type your words and 10 different activities are immediately generated! Like I said: magical! 🦄

Sight Words - Free Interactive Videos • Engaging Sight Word Practice

Did you know that about 75% of what we read is comprised of sight words? These free interactive sight word videos will aid in building this all-important reading foundation. It is imperative that kids master reading sight words with automaticity. There are tons of interactive educational videos to aid with teaching these all-important sight words. It is imperative that students commit these words to memory. The quicker they can recall these words when reading the more effortless reading becomes. Giving kids a list of words to recite over and over is just not the best way to get these tricky words to stick. However, add movement and music and something magical begins to happen!

Why are music and movement are important?

Ever notice that even as adults how quickly we can recall the lyrics of a song, including songs from our youth? Think about how quick children are to memorize fingerplays, chants, and rhymes. The use of a little music and movement makes these far more memorable! This same thing occurs for children when learning nearly anything. Just some simple movement and music act like educational glue for young learners. Below are a few of the more popular free videos for teaching sight words.

Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel

Jack Hartman has free interactive videos for teaching sight words and so much more! His collection of ‘Jump Out Words videos is great for adding movement while teaching sight words. There are 4 different videos or volumes for teaching 4 different sets of sight words. Kids do various movements like, roll their arms or twist, as they say, spell, say the words along with Jack throughout the videos. The movement switches up throughout the video.

Volume 1 Jump out Word

Jack Hartmann’s Sight Word Rap collection is another fun and free way to practice sight words. The first time through students will spell and say the word with Jack. The second time they spell the word with Jack and then they say the word independently. The third time students will spell and say the word independently and then say the sight word three times for practice. Kids love the funky beats, and the opportunity to use silly voices while learning sight words with these free educational videos.

Sight Word Rap Volume 1

Have Fun Teaching also has some great free interactive music videos for teaching sight words. The catchy tunes paired with these videos make learning sight words entertaining! Have Fun Teaching presents sight words in a variety of ways to help keep kids from getting bored and extend their learning along the way! They have videos for individual sight words, videos with multiple sight words, and sight words used in sentences.

Primer Sight Word List – Includes all Primer Sight Words – The Videos Show the word, Spell the word, then follows up by using it in a sentence all to catchy music.

Sight Word Video – Come

The individual sight word videos each repeat the word with fun music, then spell it repeatedly, and finally display and use it in a sentence. All with a pause for kids to repeat it with the music.

Harry Kindergarten has exciting Hip Sight Word Songs and Videos for the K-2 Classroom. He is a full-time Kindergarten teacher who knows how important Sight Words are for beginning readers. He is aware of what is required to entertain while teaching such eager minds and active bodies!

The Sight Word Song (Version 1)

Reading Robot

These energetic videos include a fun little mouse sidekick to cheer the kids on to fun music as they listen, repeat, and read the sight words. After a brief practice of several words, the words appear in a big speech bubble for kids to attempt to read on their own. ELF has 4 videos that include 25 sight words per video. I have added a small stuffed mouse as a mascot in my classroom to use with the videos. The kids get excited when ‘he’ comes out to ‘practice’ those important words!

25 Sight Words for Kindergarten #1

These interactive sight word videos have a fun surprise built right into them! Students repeat the displayed sight words. Then, after so many sight words there’s a ‘surprise’! The word ‘dance’ pops up, and fun dance music plays so the kids can freestyle dance until the next word is displayed. A fun brain break is already included within this groovy sight word practice. Sight words are provided for grades Pre-K through First Grade. They also have a similarly styled video set that matches the Fry Sight Word Lists.

Kindergarten Sight Word Video

First Grade Sight Word Video

Want to add more consistent movement to your daily learning activities with the click of a mouse? Check out my Fluency & Fitness+ Program. It is a fun innovation of combining fluency practice with movement, the kiddos just love the surprising brain breaks within each ‘video’. It is an online subscription service that includes engaging videos with brain breaks already embedded! Fluency&Fitness+ includes task cards and another interactive piece called Fluency Find It! Students watch the slides and use a form, that is provided, to either ‘find’ the answer or to kick it up a level, write the answer. These activities are great for grades Pre-K through Second. They can easily be used for a refresher in Third Grade as well. Although the Fluency & Fitness+ membership is a paid program, you can sign up below to try a few videos for FREE!

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Songs online

Collection of children's songs to listen to online and download. Children's songs with lyrics and backing tracks.

Songs from cartoons
Lullabies Songs
Songs for kids
New Year's songs
New Year's playlist
English songs
Songs
Musart Motzart
Dance music
White noise for sleep
Sounds for children
Cold heart
Cold heart 2
Bremen musicians
Classical music
Russian folk songs
Music from the Nutcracker
Logorhythmics
Logopedic songs
Fairy Patrol
Ladybug and Super Cat
Rapunzel
Barboskins
Four hedgehogs
Autumn playlist
Goodbye Mary Poppins!
Mermaid
Birthday disco
Lullabies Banilac
King Lev
Aladdin
ASSOUT NOTOMS
MONSTER HAI
LOOPLE LOOPOLDA
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Adventures Electronics
Little Pony
Music for meditation and classes on Shichid
Gravity Folz
Blue Puppy
Songs about kindergarten and for graduation
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Choir of large families of Moscow
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Listen to children's songs comfortably

Children's songs are easy to listen to online on our website. On the page with the song you will find a convenient player that allows you to listen to your favorite melody as many times as you like.

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Lyrics for children

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Notes for children's songs

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Top 10 children's songs on the road - magazine Behind the wheel

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Older children love to listen to their music on headphones, and sometimes it is difficult to guess what they like, so here we will talk about kids “from three to six”. At first, adults sing to them, and when they get older, they themselves join the general choir. It is especially good if there are sisters or brothers in the family, on whom the younger ones always equal and who can easily set the tone.

Enable compilation and sing along from smartphone? You can do that, but it's much more interesting to sing on your own. It remains to refresh the memory of the words. And learn something interesting about old familiar songs.

10. “Blue Tractor”

One of the most cheerful and catchy songs that are well received by kids on trips is “Blue Tractor”, which comes to us “through the fields, across the fields”:

trailer someone sings a song.
Well, baby, come on, try to guess,
Who, who, who, who sings a song:
Mu mumumum mumumumuuu mumumumumumu
That's right, it's a cow!

And so on with variations: a ram (be-be), a pig (oink-oink), a dog (woof-woof), a rooster (crowing). .. preferences of babies under the age of 4 years. There was a choice between a blue tractor or a red car, the latter seemed too banal, and so the blue tractor appeared.

9. “We are going, we are going, we are going”

And even the most serious parent will immediately remember the words and melody of this song: “We are going, we are going, we are going” - this, as they say, is a classic for all time:

We live happily,
We sing a song,
And in the song
is sung About how we live.

Sergei Mikhalkov is believed to be the author of the text, but there was a tale (it is no longer possible to confirm) that it was actually written by a talented political prisoner when he was being taken into exile in "distant lands". I wrote with humor, and if we consider the words of the song from this angle, one can discover new meanings in simple lines.

8. "Antoshka"

And how not to remember the song about the red-haired Antoshka, who was called first to dig potatoes, then play the harmonica, but the guy "saves his strength" for food, and he had one answer to everything:

Tili-tili, trali-wali,
We did not go through this,
We were not asked to do this.
Tili-tili, trali-wali,
We did not go through this,
We were not asked to do this.

It is easy to remember, especially since the image of a red-haired naughty boy is in front of your eyes, as the animators drew a no less wonderful cartoon for this song.

By the way, in Soviet times, the artistic council did not want to miss this song, considering it harmful to the younger generation. It only helped that she was able to get her on the air of the Good Morning! on the radio and it became an instant hit. Not only children liked it - for a long time the song about Antoshka was popular among drunken citizens. It was not for nothing that the hero of Yuri Yakovlev, Ivan Vasilyevich Bunsha, who had gained a lot of talent, tried to teach ancient Russian musicians "modern melody" in Gaidai's comedy.

7. Crocodile Gena's song

If it's late in the evening, and it's getting dark outside the window, and suddenly it gets quieter and a little sad in the car, how can we do without the song "Uncle Gena"? She teaches kids: whatever happens in life, you need to hope for the best, and so it will happen!

Slowly the minutes float away,
You don't wait to meet them.
And, although we are a little sorry for the past,
The best, of course, is ahead!
Tablecloth, tablecloth spreads a long way,
And rests directly on the sky.
Everyone, everyone believes in the best,
The blue wagon is rolling, rolling.

6. Little Mouse's Song

In the morning, to shake things up and start the day in a good mood, you can cheerfully "squeak" the Little Mouse's song - also from the animated film. It doesn’t matter that the main character is still that lazy person, he sings, standing with a guitar on a stump while others are working. But he does it cheerfully and with a spark:

What a wonderful day!
What a wonderful stump!
How wonderful I am,
And my song!

5. “Twice two is four”

the world!

And it was sung at one time by Eduard Khil, who, thirty or even forty years later, would become "Mr. Trololo". Following him, preschool children of many generations repeat the multiplication table, because "three times three is forever nine, there's nothing to be done, and it's easy to count how much five five will be. "

4. Chunga-changa (song from the cartoon "Katerok")

If you are tired of sitting quietly and want to play pranks a little, then you should sing about the island of Chunga-changa, where life is easy and simple, you don't have to do anything, just chew coconuts and bananas. Once the boat “Chizhik” falls into the storm, and it brings it to a small island where a cheerful company meets it: Negrit, giraffe and bass parrot and are happy to talk about their island-Rae.

Chunga-changa! Blue sky!
Chunga-changa! Summer is all year round!
Chunga-changa! We live happily!
Chunga-changa! Let's sing a song!
Wonder Island, Wonder Island!
Living on it is easy and simple!
Living on it is easy and simple!
Chunga-changa!

3. Song of the cat Leopold

We didn’t forget about the cat Leopold either — the eternal war of mice against him always ends in reconciliation: shoulder light,
And with this song I roll around the world,
I roll, I roll wherever I want.

At first, Leopold was voiced by Andrei Mironov, and when the actor fell ill, all three characters spoke in the voice of Gennady Khazanov. Then they decided to invite Alexander Kalyagin, and it is his voice that sounds in this song. Colleagues called Kalyagin Leopold Ilyich, because at the same time he played the role of Lenin in a feature film.

2. “A grasshopper was sitting in the grass”

Many kids (and their parents for sure!) know by heart the words of the hit of all times and generations “A grasshopper was sitting in the grass”. But many remember only the first verse:

A grasshopper was sitting in the grass, a grasshopper was sitting in the grass,
Just like a cucumber, he was green.
Imagine, imagine,
Just like a cucumber,
Imagine, imagine,
He was green.

And, by the way, there are four couplets, so it would be nice to refresh the memory of the song too.

Few people know that the text was written by Nikolai Nosov. And he entered the wonderful book "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends". Hearing "Grasshopper", Dunno suddenly realized that he wanted to become a singer. True, it did not last long...

1. “Smile”

And what is at the top of our hit parade? Of course, "Smile"! After all, a trip is an anticipation of joy, new meetings and impressions, so the mood should be appropriate:

A gloomy day is brighter from a smile,
A rainbow will wake up from a smile in the sky.
Share your smile -
And it will return to you more than once!

The song from the cartoon "Little Raccoon" has become the hallmark of Clara Rumyanova. The voice of the immortal Hare from "Well, you wait!" perfectly cheers up - checked!

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Of course, there are much more children's compositions that are suitable for a long journey than in our hit parade. We tried to choose the simplest and kindest. Having learned them, our children someday will sing to their babies.