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What are sight words?
Sight words are high frequency words used in the English language. Commonly this is a set of about 100 words that keeps reappearing on almost any page of our reading and writing. “Who, the, he, were, does, their, me, be” are a few examples.
Often these words do not have a concrete image that accompanies them. Thus, they simply must be memorised and understood. Educator Dr. Edward William Dolch developed the list of the words which comprise 80% of what you would find in a typical children’s book. Once a child knows this list of words, it makes reading much easier, because the child can then focus his or her attention on the remaining words.
The Dolch words are commonly divided into groups by grade level, ranging from pre-kindergarten to third grade, with a separate list of nouns.
Dolch sight word lists
- Pre-K Dolch Sight Words (40 words)
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
- Kindergarten Dolch Sight Words (52 words)
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
- First Grade Dolch Sight Words (41 words)
after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, going, 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
- Second Grade Dolch Sight Words (46 words)
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
- Third Grade Dolch Sight Words (41 words)
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
- Noun Dolch Sight Words (95 words)
apple, baby, back, ball, bear, bed, bell, bird, birthday, boat, box, boy, bread, brother, cake, car, cat, chair, chicken, children, Christmas, coat, corn, cow, day, dog, doll, door, duck, egg, eye, farm, farmer, father, feet, fire, fish, floor, flower, game, garden, girl, goodbye, grass, ground, hand, head, hill, home, horse, house, kitty, leg, letter, man, men, milk, money, morning, mother, name, nest, night, paper, party, picture, pig, rabbit, rain, ring, robin, Santa Claus, school, seed, sheep, shoe, sister, snow, song, squirrel, stick, street, sun, table, thing, time, top, toy, tree, watch, water, way, wind, window, wood
How to Make Flashcards with Sight Words?
You may download our ready sight word flashcards here. The PDF file comprises 100 words for kindergarten and first grade.
The flashcards are made with Flashcard.Online template #3 and PDFPro.co tool. Of course, you can make your own cards straight on flashcard.online app, but unfortunately the text will be small for kids. So it’s better to add it using third-party tool.
This is a nice, little website. My only suggestion would be to change the font to something like “Comics San” or “Chalkboard” where the letters: a, g, (q) are better represented. If possible, it would be great if the user had the option to choose their own font.
thanks for the suggestion, will need to raise funds )
Need to change Letter size