Dolch Sight Words List

We group all Dolch sight words by grades - kindergarten: Pre-Primer and Primer, elementary school: 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade. Each word has an interactive card, example sentences or phrases, and various printable worksheets in PDF, which can be produced dynamically for spelling or other offline study activities.
 Introduction
Dolch sight words are compiled by Dr. Edward William Dolch, which is by statistics of reading contents from kindergarten to 2nd grade. This vocabulary is essential for young kids in their word learning. It is also a famous wordlist that teachers assign for memorization in American elementary schools.

The list consists of two parts. At first, it was a list of the 220 most common English words, but no noun was in the list. Then Dr. Dolch added 95 nouns in alphabetical order, which are the most frequently used nouns in children's reading books.

The list provides an excellent base for reading at an early age. Between 50% and 75% of all words used in school books and library books, newspapers, and magazines are in Dolch vocabulary. It isn't just a workload of 300 words, but the first step for kids to start their school journey.

Because Dolch collected the short vocabulary from reading materials between kindergarten and 2nd grade, we strongly recommend finishing all of them before 3rd grade. Otherwise, kids would face reading issues more or less. For 3rd grade students, we suggest studying the Fry sight words list, which is from reading samples of 3rd to 9th grade.

Ideally, the list should be finished before grade 3, although this app has categorized all 300+ Dolch words into five groups: Pre-primer, Primer, 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade. (Pre-primer and Primer are in kindergarten.) Hopefully, 2nd-grade students can complete the last two groups and study Fry words since 3rd grade.

Details of the 5 groups are shown here.

Dolch Sight Words - Pre-primer: 4 lists, each has 15 words (60 words in total)
Tools for Learning and Assessment:
Interactive CardsPDF Worksheets
  a     and     away     big     blue     can     come     down     find     for     funny     go     help     here     I     in     is     it     jump     little     look     make     me     my     not     one     play     red     run     said     see     the     three     to     two     up     we     where     yellow     you     bed     box     boy     car     cat     cow     day     dog     egg     eye     leg     man     men     pig     sun     top     toy     way     baby     back  


Dolch Sight Words - Primer: 4 lists, each has 15 words (60 words in total)
Tools for Learning and Assessment:
Interactive CardsPDF Worksheets
  all     am     are     at     ate     be     black     brown     but     came     did     do     eat     four     get     good     have     he     into     like     must     new     no     now     on     our     out     please     pretty     ran     ride     saw     say     she     so     soon     that     there     they     this     too     under     want     was     well     went     what     white     who     will     with     yes     ball     bear     bell     bird     boat     cake     coat     corn  


Dolch Sight Words - 1st Grade: 4 lists, each has 15 words (60 words in total)
Tools for Learning and Assessment:
Interactive CardsPDF Worksheets
  after     again     an     any     as     ask     by     could     every     fly     from     give     giving     had     has     her     him     his     how     just     know     let     live     may     of     old     once     open     over     put     round     some     stop     take     thank     them     then     think     walk     were     when     doll     door     duck     farm     feet     fire     fish     game     girl     hand     head     hill     home     milk     name     nest     apple     birthday     bread  


Dolch Sight Words - 2nd Grade: 4 lists, each has 15 words (60 words in total)
Tools for Learning and Assessment:
Interactive CardsPDF Worksheets
  always     around     because     been     before     best     both     buy     call     cold     does     don't     fast     first     five     found     gave     goes     green     its     made     many     off     or     pull     read     right     sing     sit     sleep     tell     their     these     those     upon     us     use     very     wash     which     why     wish     work     would     write     your     brother     chair     chicken     rain     ring     seed     sheep     shoe     sister     snow     song     stick     street     table  


Dolch Sight Words - 3rd Grade: 4 lists, each has 20 words (80 words in total)
Tools for Learning and Assessment:
Interactive CardsPDF Worksheets
  about     better     bring     carry     clean     cut     done     draw     drink     eight     fall     far     full     got     grow     hold     hot     hurt     if     keep     kind     laugh     light     long     much     myself     never     only     own     pick     seven     shall     show     six     small     start     ten     today     together     try     warm     thing     time     tree     watch     children     Christmas     farmer     father     floor     flower     garden     good-bye     grass     ground     horse     house     kitty     letter     money     change     late     learn     morning     mother     night     paper     party     picture     press     rabbit     real     Santa Claus     school     squirrel     story     water     wind     window     wood  


More Than Word List
We not only group Dolch sight words here. We show each word an interactive flashcard with example sentences or phrases. Besides, Do you want to exercise spelling or handwriting? Hundreds of offline worksheets are available to download and print. It is a great resource to help kids to study Dolch sight words quickly.

We demonstrate some fantastic features below. Click the picture to try it!

Interactive cards by grade and list:
Dolch Card
Printable worksheets by grade:
List sample Card sample Spelling sample Fill-in sample
Show me how to make printable worksheets:
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