Heart Words Word Mapping Practice Worksheets

Learning heart words and high frequency words doesn't have to be tricky! Heart word mapping helps your students connect sounds to letters so that these words make sense! These Science of Reading sight word practice worksheets include a variety of ways to work with each word.

These Science of Reading Heart Words worksheets are aligned with research from the science of reading and based on best practices for learning sight words or high frequency words.

⭐PLEASE NOTE: Some words included are high frequency words and NOT heart words! Some words may be temporary heart words (until students are taught those phonics rules) or are fully decodable. However, they were included because teachers wanted consistency in their practice.

Instructions are included for how to map words inside; you will not assign any hearts to a fully decodable word. Instructions are also included for how to map sounds like /ks/ or silent /wu/ or silent e.

How to use these heart sight word practice pages:

1. Students will say the word.
2. They will tap the sounds in the word.
3. They will map the word, using their finger to "push" the sounds up into the sound boxes.
4. They will map the word, writing a phoneme in each sound box. If multiple letters make a sound, they will share a sound box (b - ea - ch).
5. They will draw a heart over the tricky part. This may depend on what phonics skills you've taught students.
6. They will rainbow write the sight words, coloring each sound a different color.
7. They will use the letter tiles to build the sight words.
8. They will write the heart words four times. If you want, you can have students draw hearts over the tricky parts here too.

High frequency words included:

a

about

after

again

all

always

am

an

and

are

around

as

ask

at

ate

away

be

because

been

before

best

better

big

black

blue

both

bring

brown

but

buy

by

call

came

can

carry

clean

cold

come

could

cut

day

did

do

does

done

don't

down

draw

drink

eat

eight

every

fall

far

fast

find

first

five

fly

for

found

four

from

full

funny

gave

get

girl

give

go

goes

going

good

got

green

grow

had

has

have

he

help

her

here

him

his

hold

hot

how

hurt

I

if

in

into

is

it

its

jump

just

keep

kind

know

laugh

let

light

let

like

little

live

long

look

made

make

many

may

me

much

must

my

myself

never

new

nine

no

not

now

of

off

old

on

once

one

only

open

or

our

out

over

own

part

people

pick

pink

play

please

pretty

pull

put

ran

read

red

ride

right

round

run

said saw

say

says

see

seven

shall

she

show

sing

sit

six

sleep

small

so

some

soon

start

stop

take

tell

ten

thank

that

the

their

them

then

there

these

they

think

this

those

three

to

today

together

too

try

two

under

up

upon

us

use

very

walk

want

warm

was

wash

water

we

well

went

were

what

when

where

which

white

with

who

why

will

wish

work

would

wrote

yellow

yes

you

your