Free Sight Words Worksheets Generator Dolch and Fry words to read, trace, write and find

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Sight words are common words children are taught to recognize quickly, such as the, and, was and said. Many of them are hard to sound out. They are also called high-frequency words, and in England some are called tricky words or common exception words. These sheets give a child repeated, short practice with them.

There is no single official number. Common Core RF.K.3.c asks kindergartners to read common high-frequency words by sight, such as the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do and does. Literacy researcher Timothy Shanahan suggests about 20 words by the end of kindergarten, and many teachers use the Dolch pre-primer and primer words (92 in all) as a guide.

Dolch (1936) has 220 service words in five levels from pre-primer to 3rd grade, plus 95 nouns, and was built from children's books of his time. Fry (1957, revised 1980) lists the 1000 most frequent words in print in order of frequency, in groups of 100. The two overlap: 165 of the 220 Dolch words appear in Fry's first 300. This generator has both lists.

Start with the Dolch pre-primer list or Fry's first 25 to 50 words: the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it. Take a few at a time, in sets of five, and move on when a child reads them without sounding out. Use the Starter set of ten words, or tick just the words your child missed.

Fry's rule of thumb is the first 100 words by the end of grade 1, then one more 100 a year. The Dolch 1st grade list has 41 words and the primer list 52. Common Core RF.1.3.g asks first graders to read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. Use the Fry first 100 set to practice them.

Open Choose the words, type or paste words into Your own words, separated by commas, spaces or new lines, and the page updates at once. You can mix list words and your own words, up to 60 words per set, which is useful for names and spelling words.

Keep it short: about 3 to 5 minutes a day is enough, according to Shanahan. Read the word together, trace it, write it from memory and then play find and circle. Choose 5 to 10 words, reread the same words in a book, and drop a word once it is easy.

Yes. Switch on Add answer key pages for find and circle in Paper and colors. You get a copy of each find page with every matching word circled in red. The read, trace and write pages have no key because the answer is the word itself.

Not as ready-made lists yet. The word lists here are Dolch and Fry. For Reception and Year 1 tricky words or common exception words, type or paste your school's list into Your own words, and the page makes the same read, trace, write and find sheets on A4.