Sight Word Looking Worksheet

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NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comlookinglookinglookinglookingTrace it. Then write it.Find "looking". Circle it every time. How many did you find?Read it. Say it. Spell it aloud.lookingbookinglookslookingcookinglooklockinglookinglookinglookinglikinglookedcookinglikinglooklookingbookingtakinglooks
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 amat you.Are you looking, too?klingoo
NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comFind "looking". 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 keylooking5bookinglookslookingcookinglooklockinglookinglookinglookinglikinglookedcookinglikinglooklookingbookingtakinglooksI amat you.lookinglookingklingoo
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The word "looking" on 2 pages and 1 page of answers, Letter landscape.

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The sight words and their practice lines

The word on its own 2

  • looking 7 letters for 5 sounds: l, the double o of book, k, a short i, then n-g as one sound. It is look with i-n-g added. The l and the k go tall, and the g drops below the base line.
  • Looking looking Capital L beside small l. The capital is for the start of a sentence.

Spot-the-word rows 4

  • cooking looking Circle looking 1 time. Cooking rhymes with it and changes only the first letter.
  • liking looking Circle looking 1 time. Liking has one i where looking has two o's, so it is a letter shorter.
  • looking locking Circle looking 1 time. Locking has a c where looking has its second o.
  • looking look looking Circle looking 2 times. Look is the first four letters on their own.

Missing-letter rows 2

  • l__king looki__ Two letters are gone each time: o-o, then n-g.
  • _ooking loo_ing One letter is missing each time: l, then k. They are the two tall letters.
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Phrases with looking 9

  • keep looking Keep has e-e, two letters for one long e.
  • looking at the map Map sounds out.
  • looking at you At sounds out. You is a word to know by sight.
  • looking back Back ends in c-k, two letters for one sound.
  • looking for it It sounds out. In for, o-r works as one sound.
  • looking for my hat Hat sounds out. My ends in a y that says long i.
  • looking out Out starts with o-u, two letters for one sound.
  • looking up Up sounds out.
  • still looking Still ends in two l's that make one sound.

Sentences to read and copy 10

  • Are you looking, too? 4 words. A comma and a question mark. Too has two o's that say oo.
  • The cat is looking. 4 words. Cat sounds out. Looking comes last, right before the period.
  • He was looking out. 4 words. Out starts with o-u, two letters for one sound.
  • I am looking at you. 5 words. Am and at sound out. Looking sits in the middle, with a small l.
  • I am looking for Mom. 5 words. Mom is a name here, so it takes a capital M.
  • Keep looking, Sam! 3 words. A comma comes before the name, and an exclamation mark ends it.
  • Looking up, I saw it. 5 words. Looking comes first, so it takes a capital L. A comma follows up.
  • She is looking for it. 5 words. It sounds out. She starts with s-h, two letters for one sound.
  • We are looking up. 4 words. Up sounds out. The sentence ends with a period.
  • Who is looking at me? 5 words. A question mark ends it. At sounds out.

How this list was compiled: Every line was written for this site on 2026-09-30 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. That looking is look with -ing added, that it splits look-ing, that it has five sounds and that it rhymes with cooking and booking: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/looking, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cooking and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/booking (etymology, pronunciation, hyphenation and rhymes, checked 2026-09-30). That look and book have the same vowel: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/look and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/book (checked 2026-09-30). 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. Sound notes describe general American pronunciation. Licence: own work

How it works

The sight word looking is look, a word most beginners know, with i-n-g on the end. This sheet has the child trace it, circle it among look, cooking, locking and liking, and finish I am ___ at you.

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Look, then i-n-g

Wiktionary gives looking as look with -ing added and splits it look-ing. Cover the last three letters and read look: the double o keeps the sound it has in book. The row looking look looking asks the child to find the longer word. Nothing in look changes when the ending goes on.

One ending, many words

The ending sounds the same in cooking and booking, which rhyme with looking. A child who reads it here can read it there. The n and g work as one sound, so the word has seven letters and five sounds.

  • Build look from the tiles l, oo and k, then add the ing tile.
  • Write look and looking one above the other and underline look in both.
  • Dictate Keep looking, Sam! and check the comma and the capital S.

Questions and answers

Can the sight word looking be sounded out?

Yes, in two parts. Look has the double o of book, and i-n-g is an ending the child will meet on many words. Read look, then add the ending.

Why does my student write lookin or loking?

Lookin drops the g: n-g is one sound, so the g is easy to miss. Loking drops an o. The row l__king looki__ has the child put back exactly those letters: o-o, then n-g.

How is looking different from look?

Look is the base word, and Wiktionary lists looking as its -ing form: I look, I am looking. The spelling of look does not change. Both words are in the find grid.

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