Saw Sight Word Worksheet

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NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comsawsawsawsawsawsawsawsawTrace it. Then write it.Find "saw". Circle it every time. How many did you find?Read it. Say it. Spell it aloud.sawsawwaspawsawsawsawpawsawsatsewsawwassowrawlawsawsatsay
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.Ia red bird.Yes, I saw it.asw
NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comFind "saw". 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 keysaw7sawwaspawsawsawsawpawsawsatsewsawwassowrawlawsawsatsayIa red bird.sawsawasw
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The word "saw" on 2 pages and 1 page of answers, Letter landscape.

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The word on its own 3

  • saw 3 letters for 2 sounds: s, then a-w as one sound, the aw of paw. Turn the letters around and they spell was. No letter goes tall and none drops below the base line.
  • Saw saw Capital S beside small s: one curve at two heights.
  • saw saw saw Three to trace. Say s, then aw, each time: three letters, two sounds.

Spot-the-word rows 4

  • paw saw jaw saw law Circle saw 2 times. Paw, jaw and law rhyme with saw and change only the first letter.
  • sat saw sad saw Circle saw 2 times. Sat and sad start s-a too, so the last letter decides.
  • saw was saw sew Circle saw 2 times. Was is the same three letters in the other order. Sew changes only the middle letter.
  • sow saw say saw Circle saw 2 times. Sow has an o in the middle. Say ends in y where saw ends in w.

Missing-letter rows 2

  • s__ __w Two letters are gone each time: a-w, then s-a.
  • s_w sa_ _aw One letter is missing each time: a, then w, then s.
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Phrases with saw 10

  • I saw The pair that starts a story about something seen. I is a capital wherever it stands.
  • just saw it Just and it sound out.
  • on a seesaw Saw is the last three letters of this longer word.
  • saw a paw print Paw rhymes with saw and ends in the same a-w.
  • saw a red bird Red sounds out. In bird, i-r is one sound.
  • saw him run Him and run sound out.
  • saw my dad Dad sounds out. My ends in a y that says long i.
  • saw the moon The o-o in moon says oo.
  • see and saw See is for now. Saw is for a time that is over.
  • we saw it It sounds out. We ends in an e that says its name.

Sentences to read and copy 11

  • He saw it was wet. 5 words. Saw and was in one line. Saw starts with s; was ends with it.
  • I saw a red bird. 5 words. Red sounds out. Saw is the second word, with a small s.
  • I saw you at the bus. 6 words. At and bus sound out.
  • I see it. I saw it. 6 words. Two sentences. See is for now; saw is for a time that is over.
  • Mom saw us run. 4 words. Us and run sound out. Mom is a name here, so it takes a capital M.
  • She saw me jump. 4 words. Jump sounds out. She starts with s-h, two letters for one sound.
  • They saw a big ship. 5 words. Big sounds out. S-h in ship is one sound.
  • We saw a fox. 4 words. Fox sounds out: the x says k-s.
  • We saw the moon. 4 words. Moon has o-o, two letters for one sound.
  • Who saw my hat? 4 words. A question mark ends it. Hat sounds out.
  • Yes, I saw it. 4 words. A comma follows yes. It sounds out.

How this list was compiled: Every line was written for this site on 2026-10-01 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 saw has two sounds in American speech, s and the vowel written a-w, that was is an anagram of it and that it is the simple past of see: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saw (pronunciation, anagrams and the verb sense, checked 2026-10-01). That paw and law share its rhyme: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paw and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/law (rhymes, checked 2026-10-01). That sew is said like so: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sew (homophones, checked 2026-10-01). Each sound, rhyme and sounds-out note was also compared with the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/master/cmudict.dict (2026-10-01). 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 saw sight word is was with its letters turned around, and beginners read one for the other. This sheet has the child trace saw, circle it among was, sew, sow and say, and finish I ___ a red bird.

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Start at the s

Saw and was are the same three letters, and Wiktionary lists each as an anagram of the other. Both are flat words, with no tall letter and no tail, so the outline gives no help. Only the first letter does. The row saw was saw sew has the child touch each first letter and say its sound before circling.

A and w, one sound

Saw has three letters and two sounds. The a and the w work together and say aw, as they do in paw and law, which rhyme with it. Saw is also what see becomes once the seeing is over: I see it now, I saw it before.

  • Write saw and was one above the other and circle the first letter of each.
  • Build saw from its three tiles, then read the row from the other end: was.
  • Dictate I see it. I saw it. and ask which sentence is about now.

Questions and answers

Can the sight word saw be sounded out?

Yes, once a-w is taught as one sound. Say s, then aw, as in paw and law. A child who tries three separate sounds gets stuck, because the w is not heard on its own.

My student reads saw as was. What helps?

Slow the eye at the first letter. Saw starts with s, was with w. Was is in the find grid on purpose, and the row s_w sa_ _aw has the child write each letter in its place.

Is saw a word of its own or a form of see?

A form of see. Wiktionary gives saw as its simple past: I see a bird today, I saw one before. The pair is on this page as see and saw.

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