Dolch Sight Words

What are Dolch Sight Words?

You might now be wondering What are Dolch Sight Words? Dolch sight words list covers 220 of the most frequent sight words that students will come across in text. This important educational tool was created by Dr. Edward William Dolch in the 1940s. Here you’ll find grade-level sight word lists as outlined by Dolch 220 Word List:

Printable Dolch Sight Word List

This chart features all 220 Dolch Sight Words for preschool through third grade. Each grade features sight words in alphabetical order. Use this printable PDF list as a reference of sight words your students can learn each year.

Printable Dolch Sight Words List by Frequency

Free printable sight word chart featuring grade levels organized by frequency. Learning sight words by frequency is helpful to quickly build up reading fluency skills. For each level, preschool through third-grade you’ll have sights words lists by frequency.

Dolch Sight Words List Alphabetical

Individual Alphabetical Dolch Sight Words Charts below:

Preschool Sight Words List (Dolch 220 Pre-Primer 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 Sight Words List (Dolch 220 Primer 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 Sight Words List (Dolch 220 First 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 Sight Words List (Dolch 220 Second 46 words)

always, around, because, been, before, best, both, but, call, cold, does, don’t, fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, may 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 Sight Words (Dolch 220 Third 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

Dolch Nouns List Dolch Nouns List 2

Dolch Sight Words List by Frequency

Each list is ordered by words students are most likely to come across while reading grad-level texts.

Preschool Sight Words List (Dolch 220 Pre-Primer 40 words)

the, to, and, a, I, you it, in said, for, up, look, is, go, we, little, down, can, see, not, one, my, me, big, come, blue, red, where, jump, away, here, help, make, yellow, two, play, run, find, three, funny

Kindergarten Sight Words List (Dolch 220 Primer 52 words)

he, was, that, she, on they, but, at, with, all, there, out, be, have, am, do, did, what, so, get, like, this, will, yes, went, are, not, no, came, ride, into, good, want, too, pretty, four, saw, well, ran, brown, eat, who, new, must, black, white, soon, out, ate, say, under, please

First Grade Sight Words List (Dolch 220 First 41 words)

of, his, had, him, her, some, as, then, could, when, were, them, ask, an, over, just, from, any, how, know, put, take, every, old, by, after, think, let, going, walk, again, may, stop, fly, round, give, once, open, has, live, thank

Second Grade Sight Words List (Dolch 220 Second 46 words)

would, very, your, its, around, don’t, right, green, their, call, sleep, five, wash, or, before, been, off, cold, tell, work, first, does, goes, write, always, made, gave, us, buy, those, use, fast, pull, both, sit, which, read, why, found, because, best, upon, these, sing, wish, many

Third Grade Sight Words (Dolch 220 Third 41 words)

if, long about, got, six, never, seven, eight, today, myself, much, keep, try, start, ten, bring, drink, only, better, hold, warm, full, done, light, pick, hurt, cut, kind, fall, carry, small own, show, hot, far, draw, clean, grow, together, shall laugh

Dolch Nouns List Dolch Nouns List 2