Sight Words

NOTE:  These are "Dolch" sight words...some sight word lists may or not 
coincide with what is listed below.  Here is information about Dolch sight 
words: 

"The Dolch Word List is a list of commonly used English words that was 
originally compiled by Edward William Dolch, PhD and published in his 1948 
book, "Problems in Reading". Edward Dolch compiled this list based on 
children's books of the period, and selected 220 "service words" which 
children need to recognize in order to achieve reading fluency. Dolch 
excluded nouns from his main list, but did compile a separate 95-word list of 
nouns. 

Many of the 220 words in the Dolch list, can not be "sounded out", and hence 
must be learned by sight. Hence the list is often referred to as "Dolch Sight 
Word List", and the words on it, as 'Dolch Sight Words'." Taken from: 
http://www.dolchsightwords.org/ 

Sight Words (Dolch) List - Pre-Primer

a                    and                      away 

big                  blue                     can 

come                 down                     find 

for                  funny                    go 

help                 I                        in 

is                   it                       jump 

little               look                     make 

me                   my                       not 

one                  play                     red 

run                  said                     see 

the                  three                    to 

two                  up                       we 

yellow               you 
     


Sight Words (Dolch) List - Primer

all                   am                      are 

at                    ate                     be 

black                 brown                   but 

came                  did                     do 

eat                   four                    get 

good                  has                     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 




Sight Words (Dolch) List - First Grade

after                 again                    an 

any                   as                       ask 

by                    could                    every 

fly                   from                     give 

going                 had                      has 

her                   him                      how 

just                  know                     let 

live                  may                      of 

old                   once                     open 

over                  put                      round 

some                  stop                     take 

thank                 them                     then 

think                 walk                     where 

when