Color by Code Journeys First Grade Sight Words | Fun Literacy and Fine Motor Practice

Color by Code Journeys First Grade Sight Words is an engaging activity that helps students gain mastery of essential sight words. Each sight word is assigned a color code, challenging learners to match the colors to the correct words to complete the picture.

This creative format encourages meaningful engagement while strengthening sight word recognition, literacy development, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination—key skills for long-term academic success.

Perfect for literacy activities, small group work, early finisher tasks, or at-home practice, these worksheets make sight word learning both fun and effective.

Words Included

• Lesson 1: and, be, help, you, play, with
• Lesson 2: for, what, have, he, look, too
• Lesson 3: do, find, funny, sing, no, they
• Lesson 4: all, does, here, me, my, who
• Lesson 5: friend, full, good, hold, many, pull
• Lesson 6: away, call, come, every, hear, said
• Lesson 7: animal, how, make, of, some, why
• Lesson 8: her, now, our, she, today, would
• Lesson 9: after, draw, pictures, read, was, write
• Lesson 10: eat, give, one, put, small, take
• Lesson 11: blue, cold, for, little, live, their, water, where
• Lesson 12: been, brown, know, never, off, out, own, very
• Lesson 13: down, fall, goes, green, grow, new, open, yellow
• Lesson 14: four, five, into, over, starts, three, two, watch
• Lesson 15: bird, both, eyes, fly, long, or, those, walk
• Lesson 16: around, because, before, bring, carry, light, show, think
• Lesson 17: about, could, sure, by, don't, there, car, maybe
• Lesson 18: first, right, under, food, sometimes, your, ground, these
• Lesson 19: done, paper, were, great, soon, work, laugh, talk
• Lesson 20: door, old, want, more, try, wash, mother, use
• Lesson 21: few, night, loudly, window, noise, story, shall, world
• Lesson 22: baby, follow, years, begins, learning, young, eight, until
• Lesson 23: again, boy, nothing, along, father, together, began, house
• Lesson 24: ready, country, soil, kinds, earth, almost, covers, warms
• Lesson 25: buy, myself, school, city, party, seven, family, please
• Lesson 26: above, pushed, teacher, bear, studied, toward, even, surprised
• Lesson 27: always, different, enough, happy, high, near, once, stories
• Lesson 28: across, ball, cried, head, heard, large, second, should
• Lesson 29: caught, took, listen, thought, minute, idea, beautiful, friendship
• Lesson 30: brothers, everyone, field, loved, most, only, people, sorry

JOURNEYS Disclaimer: These materials were prepared by Teacher Jeanell and have neither been developed, reviewed, nor endorsed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, publisher of the original JOURNEYS work on which this material is based.

What teachers are saying... 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I purchased this resource for the purpose of early finisher work. The students have gotten to the point where they request sight word coloring to take home. I highly recommend!" 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Class favorite this year with my students! They know this is one of our Friday activities and if we don't get to, they ask where it is and how soon can they get it. Definitely will be using this in years to come."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students work a lot on their sight words that they get every week. This resource is amazing! It has totally changed how they feel about practicing their words. They get so happy to see the final outcome as well."