Her Sight Word Worksheet

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NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comherherherherherherherherTrace it. Then write it.Find "her". Circle it every time. How many did you find?Read it. Say it. Spell it aloud.herhereherdhereherhemhersheherhishenheroherohersherherheherher
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.I likebike.Her dog likes her.reh
NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comFind "her". 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 keyher6hereherdhereherhemhersheherhishenheroherohersherherheherherI likebike.herherreh
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The sight words and their practice lines

The word on its own 4

  • her 3 letters, 2 sounds in American speech: h, then e-r working as one team. The e is never heard on its own.
  • Her her Capital H beside small h. The capital is two posts and a bar; the small one is a post and a hump. Her opens 4 of the sentences below.
  • her her her her her Five to trace in one row. The pattern is tall, short, short: the h is the only letter that climbs.
  • her hers herself Her is the front of hers and herself. A child who knows it has already read three letters of each.

Spot-the-word rows 4

  • her hen her hem Circle her 2 times. Hen and hem change only the last letter, and their e is the short e of bed.
  • her here her he her Circle her 3 times. Here is her with an e added, and he is her with the r taken away.
  • hers herd her hero Circle her 1 time. Hers, herd and hero all start with her, so check that nothing follows the r.
  • his her him her Circle her 2 times. His and him are the pair used for a boy. Her does the work of both.
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Missing-letter rows 3

  • h__ f__n g__m The same two letters fill every gap: her, fern, germ. E-r says one sound, and it is not the short e of hen.
  • he_ h_r _er One letter is missing each time: the r, then the e, then the h. Without its r the word is he.
  • her he_ h__ ___ A fading row: trace the word, add the r, add e-r, then write all three letters from memory.

Phrases: her owns, then her receives 12

  • ask her Her receives. It follows the doing word. Swap in him and the phrase still works; swap in his and it does not.
  • for her Her receives. What goes on a gift tag. For has the team or and her has the team er: two ways an r takes over a vowel.
  • help her Her receives. Both words open with h-e, yet the e of help is short and the e of her belongs to the r.
  • her bike Her owns. From the sentence that opens the list. Bike ends in a silent e that lets the i say its name.
  • her mom Her owns. Mom sounds out, m-o-m, and reads the same forwards and backwards.
  • her mother Her owns. Look inside mother: the last three letters are h-e-r. Father, brother and other hide the word too.
  • her own bed Her owns. Own means nobody else's and has the ow of snow. Bed sounds out.
  • her red bag Her owns. Red and bag sound out, so her is the only word to know by sight.
  • her turn Her owns. The er in her and the ur in turn say the same sound. English spells it a third way, ir, in bird and first.
  • his or her The two owner words together, his for a boy and her for a girl. Or sounds out.
  • tell her Her receives. In quick speech the h can fade, so tell her comes out close to teller. Say it slowly before tracing.
  • with her Her receives. It follows a small linking word here, as it does in to her and by her. With sounds out once t-h is known.

Sentences to read and copy 12

  • Ask her, not him. 4 words and a comma. Her and him side by side: each is the receiving word, one for a girl and one for a boy.
  • Give it to her. 4 words. After to, for, with and by, her is the form to use. Give ends in a silent e that leaves its i short.
  • He gave her a hug. 5 words. He and her share their first two letters. In gave the silent e makes the a long, and hug sounds out.
  • Her bird can sing. 4 words. The ir in bird says what the er in her says. Can and sing sound out.
  • Her dog likes her. 4 words, and the only line where her does both jobs: first it owns the dog, then it receives the liking.
  • Her mom is here. 4 words. Her and here in one line. Here is her plus a final e, and the two do not sound alike.
  • Her name is Pam. 4 words. Trade Pam for a character from the class read-aloud and say the new sentence before writing it.
  • I like her bike. 4 words. Her tells whose bike it is. Swap in his and the sentence still works, which is the test for the owning job.
  • I see her. 3 words. Here her is the person being seen, and it ends the line. For a boy the word would be him.
  • I went with her. 4 words. Went and with sound out, and both open with w. Her closes the line after a linking word.
  • Is that her hat? 4 words and a question mark. Is, that and hat sound out, so her is the only word to know by sight.
  • It is her turn first. 5 words. Her, turn and first spell one sound three ways: e-r, u-r and i-r. Have the child underline each pair of letters.

How this list was compiled: Every line was written for this site on 2026-09-19 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 on 2026-09-19; mom and likes are not in that list and were checked one by one. The counts in the spot-the-word rows and the word counts of the sentences were worked out, as was the fact that mother, father, brother and other each end in the letters h-e-r. That her is said in General American as h plus one r-colored vowel, that its unstressed form may lose the h, and that hair is a sound-alike of it only under one regional merger, with hear not listed as one at all: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/her (pronunciation, checked 2026-09-19). That the vowels of fern, fir and fur sound alike in nearly every modern English accent, with Scottish English and older Irish English as the main exceptions, and that her belongs to that merged set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/r/ (section on the nurse mergers, checked 2026-09-19); fur has the same rhyme as her: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fur (checked 2026-09-19). Sound notes describe general American pronunciation. Licence: own work

How it works

Her does two jobs: in her bike it owns, and in I see her it receives. This her sight word worksheet has the child trace it, circle it among here, he, his and hen, and finish I like ___ bike.

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One word where a boy gets his and him

To tell which job her is doing, swap it. If his fits, her owns: I like her bike. If him fits, her receives: Give it to her. Eleven phrases near the foot of this page, under The sight words and their practice lines, carry the note Her owns or Her receives. In Her dog likes her. the word does both. Let the child try the swap aloud.

Er, ur and ir say one sound, and her takes the er

In American speech her is h plus a single er sound, so a child who spells by ear writes hr or hur. Wikipedia's article on vowels before r says fern, fir and fur share that sound in almost all accents. One sentence spells it all three ways: It is her turn first.

  • Write mother, father, brother and other on the board and have children box the her that ends each one.
  • Her and here differ by one e and sound different. In Her mom is here. circle the longer word.
  • Let children make a gift tag that says for her or for him: real writing in the receiving job.

Questions and answers

Why does my student write hr or hur for her?

Because the e makes no sound of its own. E-r is one sound, the same one u-r spells in turn and i-r spells in bird, so the ear cannot choose. Write the row h__ f__n g__m, which asks for e-r three times.

How do I teach her apart from here, he and his?

Start from he. Add r for her, then add e for here: three words, each one letter longer. Write the row her here her he her and ask for 3 circles. For his, write the row his her him her.

Is her a sight word or a decodable word?

Decodable once e-r is taught as a team: h, then er. Before that it is learned whole. Either way it needs the two-jobs practice, because a child who can read her may still write Her went home.

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