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Sight Word Worksheets

First page of the Dolch pre-primer word pages

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The solid letters on these sheets show stroke order: a numbered dot where each stroke starts and an arrow for its direction.

Class set

One copy for every student: type the first names and get one PDF, with each name on that student's own pages. Every student's pages use the same settings.

Class lists are used only to draw the pages and are never saved.

One practice page per word from the Dolch pre-primer to third grade lists: read the word, trace it, write it, then find it in a row of letters. Print the words your child is working on this week rather than the whole list.

Word lists: Edward William Dolch (1936, 1948).

A whole worksheet for each sight word

Where the list pages print a level on one sheet, this page gives every word a sheet of its own. Each sheet has four parts in a fixed order: read the word, trace it, write it on empty lines, and find it hidden in a row of letters. A level comes as one PDF with a page per word, from 40 pages for pre-primer to 52 for primer.

The words are the five Dolch levels, pre-primer to third grade, the same lists shown on Sight Words. To see a level as a list, use that page; for cards to cut out, see Sight Word Flashcards; for tracing sheets drawn from words you choose, see Sight Word Tracing Worksheets.

Three examples

  • A sight word worksheet for the word a with read, trace, write and find sections.
    The first pre-primer page, for the word a: read it, trace it, write it, find it.
  • A sight word worksheet for the second grade word best.
    A second grade page, for the word best.
  • A sight word worksheet for the third grade word warm.
    The last third grade page, for the word warm.

Questions and answers

How many worksheets are in each level?

One per word: pre-primer 40 pages, primer 52, first grade 41, second grade 46 and third grade 41. Each level downloads as its own PDF.

Can I print only this week's words?

Yes. The pages follow the order of the list, so find where a word sits in its level and print that page number on its own.

Do the letters show stroke order?

Yes, the solid letters in the trace row carry small numbers and arrows. Set the Show stroke arrows switch on this page to Off before downloading for sheets without them.

Where do the words come from?

From Edward William Dolch's lists, first printed in his 1936 article A Basic Sight Vocabulary in The Elementary School Journal. The source line on this page names them.

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