Sight Word Little Worksheet

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NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comlittlelittlelittlelittlelittlelittleTrace it. Then write it.Find "little". Circle it every time. How many did you find?Read it. Say it. Spell it aloud.littlelittlelikebottlelittletitletileletterbottleletterlittlelittletitlelittlelittertilemiddlekettlelike
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.The bug is.It is too little for me.ltlite
NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comFind "little". 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 keylittle5littlelikebottlelittletitletileletterbottleletterlittlelittletitlelittlelittertilemiddlekettlelikeThe bug is.littlelittleltlite
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The word on its own 3

  • little 6 letters in two beats, lit and tle. The double t keeps the i short, and the le is said as a bare l sound with a silent e. Four of the six letters rise above the dashed middle line.
  • Little little Capital L beside small l. Count the l shapes in this line: one capital and three small. Titles use the capital, as in Little Red Hen.
  • little little little little Four to trace in one row. The word is long but thin: l, i and t are narrow letters, so its six take less room than the four of a wide word such as come.

Spot-the-word rows 4

  • litter little like little Circle little 2 times. Litter shares the first four letters, l-i-t-t, so the ending decides: le or er. Like is shorter and has a k.
  • little letter little Circle little 2 times. Letter is just as long, starts with l and has the same double t in the middle. The second letter decides: i or e.
  • middle little riddle Circle little 1 time. Middle and riddle end in ddle, which is close to how the tt sounds in American speech. The ear says d; the spelling says t.
  • title little tile little Circle little 2 times. Title ends in the same t-l-e but has a single t, and its i is long. Tile has no t in the middle at all.
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Missing-letter rows 4

  • li__le ke__le bo__le The same two letters are missing from little, kettle and bottle. Each word has a short vowel, then a double t, then le.
  • lit___ ___tle little The two beats, one at a time. Clap lit-tle, finish the first beat, start the second, then trace the whole word.
  • littl_ lit_le l_ttle One letter is missing each time: e, then t, then i. The first gap is the silent e, and the second is the t that is easiest to leave out.
  • little lit___ ______ A fading row: copy the word, finish it from its first beat, then write all six letters from memory.

Phrases: little for size, a little for amount 12

  • a little bit A little for amount: a small share of something. Bit sounds out and rhymes with the first beat, lit.
  • a little lamb From the title of the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb. The b at the end of lamb is silent.
  • a little while A little for an amount of time. While starts with w-h, and its silent e makes the i long.
  • just a little A little for amount. What to say while someone pours the milk. Just sounds out.
  • little by little A saying that means slowly, a small step at a time. The word appears twice, with by in between.
  • the little one What you call the smaller of two things, or the youngest child in a family. One is a word to know whole.
  • the little red hen The title of an old fable about a hen who bakes bread with no help from the other animals. Red and hen sound out.
  • little star The last two words of the lullaby Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, which the child may already know by heart. Star has the ar of car.
  • my little sister Here little means younger, not small in size. Sister has two beats, sis-ter, as little has lit-tle.
  • my little toe Little for size: the smallest toe on the foot. Toe ends in oe, which says a long o.
  • too little Not big enough, or not enough. Too with two o's means more than is wanted.
  • when I was little The opening of a memory. Ask the child what came next and help write it on the empty row. Was is a word to know whole.

Sentences to read and copy 13

  • Add a little salt. 4 words from a recipe. Add doubles its d the way little doubles its t. Salt ends in the blend l-t.
  • The bug is little. 4 words. Little comes last, after is, and tells the size of the bug. Bug sounds out.
  • I am a little sad. 5 words. A little for amount, in front of a feeling. Sad sounds out.
  • I am little, not big. 5 words with a comma in the middle. Big and little are opposites. Am, not and big all sound out.
  • I like the little one. 5 words, two of them l words. Like has a k and one beat; little has a double t and two beats.
  • I was little once. 4 words. Something every child can say about being a baby. Once is a word to know whole.
  • It is too little for me. 6 words. What to say about last year's coat. Every word but little has two or three letters.
  • Little by little it fills. 5 words: the saying inside a sentence, for a jar under a slow drip. Fills sounds out and doubles its l.
  • Little Sam can hop. 4 words. The word comes first and takes a capital L. Sam, can and hop all sound out, so little is the only word to know by sight.
  • Look, a little duck. 4 words with a comma after Look. Look and little both start with l. Duck ends in ck.
  • My little sister is six. 5 words. Little as younger. Six sounds out and ends in x. Swap in brother or another age to make it true.
  • Save a little for me. 5 words. A snack-time request. Save ends in a silent e that makes the a long.
  • We had a little rain. 5 words. A little for amount. Rain has the ai of wait, and had sounds out.

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. Three phrases borrow words from the titles of old works for children, and no lyric or story text is quoted: little star from the lullaby Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, with words by Jane Taylor first published in 1806 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle,_Twinkle,_Little_Star), a little lamb from the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb, first published by Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb), and the little red hen from the fable of that name, in which a hen bakes bread after the other animals refuse to help (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Hen); all three checked 2026-09-18. Spellings were checked against the macOS system word list on 2026-09-18; the inflected form fills is not a headword there and was checked separately. The counts in the spot-the-word rows and the word counts of the sentences were worked out. That little has two syllables divided lit-tle, that the second is a bare l sound with no vowel, and that American speakers say the tt as a quick tap: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/little (pronunciation and hyphenation, checked 2026-09-18). That the tap makes little sound as if spelled with a d, as butter may be heard as budder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapping (checked 2026-09-18). That a doubled consonant usually marks the vowel before it as short: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography (checked 2026-09-18). Sound notes describe general American pronunciation. Licence: own work

How it works

American speech turns little into liddle, so children write lidl. This sight word little worksheet has the child trace it, circle it among letter, litter, like and title, and finish The bug is ___.

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Why little sounds like liddle

American speakers say the tt in little as a quick tap of the tongue, the same tap that lets butter be heard as budder. So the child hears a d and writes lidl, or a single t. A doubled consonant usually marks the vowel before it as short. Little has a short i, and title, with a single t, has a long one.

Little for size, a little for amount

In my little toe the word tells size. In my little sister it means younger. With a in front it becomes an amount: a little bit, a little while, We had a little rain. Press Show all 36 practice lines near the foot of this page for all three kinds. Ask which kind each one is.

  • Clap the two beats before writing. On the board, the row lit___ ___tle little has the child finish one beat at a time.
  • In print letters the l's reach the top line and the t's stop a little lower.
  • The child may already sing this word. Write little star or a little lamb and ask which song it is.

Questions and answers

Why does my student spell little with a d or with one t?

American speech turns the tt into a quick d, and no ear can tell that a t is doubled. Say that the word has twin t's, then write the row li__le ke__le bo__le on the board, where tt fills every gap.

How do I help a child who mixes up little and like?

Count letters and beats. Like has 4 letters and one beat, and little has 6 and two. Write the row litter little like little on the board and ask for 2 circles. Then read I like the little one. aloud, pointing at each l word.

Can the sight word little be sounded out?

The first beat can: l, short i, t. The second is a bare l sound spelled t-l-e with a silent e, which has to be learned as a chunk. Kettle, bottle and middle end the same way.

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