Sight Word Am Worksheet

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NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comamamamamamamamamamamTrace it. Then write it.Find "am". Circle it every time. How many did you find?Read it. Say it. Spell it aloud.ammeasamatamatmyamanarmanhamasmeamaimmyam
NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comWrite the missing word. Then read the sentence.Read the sentence. Then write it.Cut out the letters at the bottom. Glue them here in order to build the word.Isix.Yes, I am.ma
NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comFind "am". Circle it every time. How many did you find?Write the missing word. Then read the sentence.Cut out the letters at the bottom. Glue them here in order to build the word.Read it. Say it. Spell it aloud.Answer keyam5measamatamatmyamanarmanhamasmeamaimmyamIsix.amamma
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The word "am" on 2 pages and 1 page of answers, Letter landscape.

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Next step Make the sheet for an, one hump short of amMake the sheet for I, the only word am goes with

The sight words and their practice lines

The word on its own 3

  • am 2 letters for 2 sounds: a, m. Both sit between the dashed line and the base line, so the word has no tall letter and no tail.
  • Am am Capital A beside small a. Am needs its capital for one job only: starting a question, as in Am I next?
  • am am am am Four to trace in one row. Every m needs two humps. A child who stops at one hump has written an.

Spot-the-word rows 4

  • am an am at am Circle am 3 times. An has one hump where am has two, and at trades the m for a tall t.
  • as am a am an Circle am 2 times. As, a and an all open with the same round a, so the child has to check what follows it.
  • ham am jam am ram Circle am 2 times. Ham, jam and ram rhyme with am and hide the whole word behind one extra letter.
  • me am my am ma Circle am 2 times. Me, my and ma put the m first, and ma is am written backwards.
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Missing-letter rows 3

  • a_ _m a_ One letter is missing each time: m, then a, then m again. The m is asked for twice because it is the letter that slips to n.
  • am a_ __ Three steps: copy am, finish it, then write both letters with only the first word to look back at.
  • I a_ I _m I __ The same steps with I in front each time, because am always comes with I. The answers are m, a and am.

I am starters to finish 11

  • Am I A question starter with a capital A. The two words trade places to ask: Am I next? Am I right?
  • I am The pair that travels together. Am is the form of be that goes with I and with no other word. Say I am, and let the child finish it aloud before writing.
  • I am a Finish it with a person: a boy, a girl, a twin, a big sister. All three words on the row begin with a vowel letter.
  • I am at Am and at sit side by side, so the child sees the m and the t trade places. Finish it with at home or at the park.
  • I am going to A starter for a plan: going to swim, going to the shop. Going is go with ing on the end.
  • I am in Finish it with a place to be inside: in bed, in the car, in line. In sounds out.
  • I am not Finish it with something untrue and funny, such as a robot or a cat. Not sounds out: n, o, t.
  • I am on Finish it with on the bus, on the rug or on the swing. On sounds out.
  • I am so Finish it with a feeling: so glad, so hot, so sleepy. The o in so says its name, as it does in go and no.
  • I am the Finish it with a class job: the line leader, the door holder. The is a word to know by sight.
  • Today I am A journal starter for the top of a morning page. Today is to and day written as one word.

Sentences to read and copy 11

  • Am I last? 3 words and a question mark. Am comes first here, so it takes the capital. Last ends in the blend s-t.
  • Here I am. 3 words. The answer to Where are you? in hide and seek. Here is a word to learn whole.
  • I am a big kid. 5 words. Big and kid both sound out, and both have the short i of six.
  • I am as big as Dad. 6 words, the longest line here. Am and as look alike, and as comes twice. Big and Dad sound out.
  • I am at the park. 5 words. Am and at again, with a finished place this time. Park has ar, two letters for one sound.
  • I am in my bed. 5 words. Am and my share an m: last in am, first in my. Bed sounds out.
  • I am not a frog. 5 words. A silly line that children like to argue with. Not and frog sound out, and frog opens with the blend f-r.
  • I am on the bus. 5 words. On and bus sound out. A line for the first week of school.
  • I am six. 3 words. The child swaps six for their own age on the empty row. Six sounds out, and its x is k and s said together.
  • Mom, I am up. 4 words and a comma after Mom. No word is longer than three letters, and Mom and up sound out.
  • Yes, I am. 3 words and a comma. At the end of a sentence am is said in full: nobody answers Yes, I'm.

How this list was compiled: Every line was written for this site on 2026-09-18 and read aloud for sense. No line is taken from a published sight word list or workbook, and the page claims no list or grade level for the word. Spellings were checked against the macOS system word list. The counts in the spot-the-word rows and the word counts of the sentences were worked out. That am is the first-person singular present form of be, that it has a weak form said as little more than the m, and that in the United States and Canada the a before m is raised: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/am (checked 2026-09-19). That am is one of the words said in full at the end of a sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English (checked 2026-09-19). That the short a is raised before m and n for most North American speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//%C3%A6/_raising (checked 2026-09-19). Sound notes describe general American pronunciation unless they say otherwise. Licence: own work

How it works

Am is the one form of be that goes with I and with nothing else. This sight word am sheet has the child trace it, circle it among an, at and as, and finish I ___ six.

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Am belongs to I, and in speech it shrinks

Am sounds out: a, then m. The trouble is talk, where I am is squeezed into I'm. Wiktionary records that am can shrink to little more than its m. The full word returns at the end of a sentence, as in Yes, I am and Here I am, so read those two lines aloud first. Across much of North America the a before m is raised toward the e of them, so em turns up in early writing.

Starters the child has to finish

Eleven starters in the list under the tool stop short on purpose: I am a, I am not, Today I am. Type one into A sentence with it to print it. The child copies it and ends it in their own words.

  • Count humps: m has two and n has one. A finished row of am am am am shows eight.
  • The am in 9 am is another word, short for the Latin ante meridiem, before noon.
  • Play Who am I: give three clues, let the class guess, then each child writes an I am line.

Questions and answers

Why does my student write an, or em, for am?

Writing "an" is a slip of the pencil, one hump short. Writing "em" is a slip of the ear, from that raised a. Say am slowly and alone. Then write this row on the board and ask for 3 circles: am an am at am.

Should I teach I'm at the same time as am?

Teach am first, then show I'm as the same two words with an apostrophe where the a was. Write I'm six under I am six and let the child find the missing letter.

Is am a sight word or can it be sounded out?

It sounds out: short a, then m, which is ham and jam without the first letter. It gets sight practice because it appears so early, always after I, often before a child can blend two sounds.

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