Dolch Sight Words

Edward Dolch PhD published the Dolch Sight Words List in 1948. This list is composed of 220 high frequency sight words.  Since they occur so often in our reading, they are useful words to know. Many of these words are difficult to read phonetically and so using these sight words on flashcards, in bingo games, placing them all over your house, using them as stepping stones can help teach reading in fun ways.

They have been divided into 5 lists of increasing difficulty.

Print off your own Dolch Sight Words onto cardstock and use them for games, flashcards, bingo and so on.

List One

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	two	to
up	we	where	yellow	you

List Two

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

List Three

after	again	an	any	as
ask	by	could	every	fly
from	give	giving	has	had
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

List Four

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	write	sing	sit	sleep
tell	their	these	those	upon
us	use	very	wash	which
why	wish	work	would	write
your

List Five

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

Print Dolch Sight Words from a pdf document and use them as flashcards.

Use them for a bingo game.

Print off two sets and use them as a matching or Memory game.