Level 28 of 28
Sight Words List — 30 Heart Words (with Audio)
Sight words are common words that break the rules — the, was, said, friend. They cannot be fully sounded out, so part of each has to be recognised on sight. Many teachers now call them heart words: you learn the odd part by heart.
8 words · tap any word to hear it
In the app · Level 28 · Sight Words
the, was, said, have, they, once, who, your, because, friend
Age 3+
Teaching tip
Do not treat the whole word as unreadable. In said the s and d are perfectly regular — only the ai is odd, and that is the part highlighted here. Mark just that bit; the rest can still be decoded. It turns 30 impossible words into 30 words with one tricky letter each.
What’s in the app
You're seeing 8 of 30 words
All 30 are in the app. This page is the reference; the app is where a child does the reading — levels 1–3 are free to try.
- 🎧Every word, not a sampleOver 1,700 words across all 28 levels, each one recorded by a person — not the handful shown here.
- 🗂️All 28 levels, not 8Printables are single sheets. The app teaches the levels in order and keeps track of where your child is up to.
- 🎮Practice, not just a listFour screens per level — Intro, Learn, Practice, Listen — so a child does the reading instead of reading about it.
- ⭐Progress that sticksA journey map, 84 stars and a level-by-level path. Stars never go down.
- 🪜Four capstone challengesReading Ladder, Word Detective, Super Quiz and Compare & Choose — proving a child can decode words they have never seen.
- ✍️Letter tracingGuided finger tracing with stroke order. Impossible with a mouse, natural on a tablet.
- 📊A parent reportWhat your child practised, where they are stuck, and what to do about it.
- 📶Works offlineEvery activity and all 2,000+ clips, on a plane or in the car.
- 🧩Beyond phonics30+ more activities for vocabulary, grammar and sentence building, ages 3–8.
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Watch the lesson
1 videoThe same words, sounded out on screen. Watch together, then practise the list above.
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