Sight Word Flashcards Printable Dolch and Fry word cards for home and classroom

Yes. They are free, need no account and add no watermark to the PDF, PNG or printout. Everything is made in your browser, so the words you choose are not uploaded.

Sight words are common words a reader should recognise quickly without sounding them out, such as the, and, was and said. Teachers also say high-frequency words, and some programmes use heart words for the tricky parts of irregular words. These cards work with any of those terms: they just show one word each.

Both. Dolch has 220 service words in five levels (pre-primer 40, primer 52, grade 1 41, grade 2 46, grade 3 41) plus 95 nouns. Fry words are the most frequent words in print, in three hundreds: 1 to 100, 101 to 200 and 201 to 300. Neither is the Common Core list, which only gives examples such as the, of, to, you and she.

Choose double-sided in the template library, pick long-edge or short-edge flip to match your printer, and print the test page first. It prints one front and one back; hold them up to a light. If the back is slightly off, use the back page shift fields, then print the whole deck.

You can fit 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 cards per page. On A4, 4 per page gives cards of 91 × 128 mm, 6 per page 91 × 84 mm, 8 per page 91 × 62 mm and 12 per page 59 × 62 mm; US Letter is very close. There is no standard size: free downloads use full-page, half-page, quarter-page and 8-per-page cards, and the tool shows the exact size.

Keep it short. Understood.org's example is to pick the 25 words a child misses most and teach about 5 a day. Mix a few new cards with known ones, and stop while it is still fun. There is no single rule, so follow your school's scheme if it has one.

Show one card at a time, wait about three seconds, and let your child read the word. If they cannot, say it and have them repeat it, then return to it later in the pile. Shuffle between rounds so the order does not give the word away. Understood.org suggests continuing until each word is read correctly at least twice.

Flashcards are practice, not a method on their own. UFLI says flashcards suit practice after a word has been introduced and taught, and many readers pick up irregular words in a few exposures while struggling readers may need 20 or more. Reading researcher Timothy Shanahan also stresses that children should meet the words in real text, not only on cards.

Yes. Every card in the table can be edited, you can add or remove cards, and the batch input replaces or extends the deck with a list of your own words, one per line. You can use it for names, class reader words or the UK tricky words you are teaching.

Yes. Pick shuffled order and press shuffle again for a new mix. On the back you can show the list name and the word number, which helps when several decks get mixed up. Both options rebuild the deck, so make single-card edits last.