All 315 Dolch words by level, and a pack for any list — Dolch or the one your school sent home — with flashcards, read-trace-write, bingo, word search, an assessment sheet and a progress tracker that all use the same words.
Preview — every page of the pack
Edward W. Dolch’s list has 220 “service words” (the, and, said, because…), none of them nouns, plus a separate list of 95 nouns. Schools split the 220 into five levels. Tap a word to mark it as known (it turns green): the marks stay on this device, and the pack maker above can leave those words out so the next pack only practices what is left.
The first 40 words: the, and, you, see, look, I. Usually taught in: Preschool / pre-K.
The next 52 words — he, she, they, was, have, what. With the pre-primer list that makes 92 words. Usually taught in: Kindergarten.
41 words, many of them past tenses and question words: had, has, could, were, when, how, once. Usually taught in: First grade.
46 words, with some of the trickiest spellings on the list: because, does, their, which, would, write. Usually taught in: Second grade.
41 words, the last level of the 220 service words: about, better, together, laugh, myself, shall. Usually taught in: Third grade.
Dolch’s separate list of 95 everyday nouns — apple, baby, chair, father, school, tree. Each one can go on a flashcard with a picture. Usually taught in: Any grade (picture words).
The ready-made PDFs have the cover, flashcards, read-trace-write sheets, a caller’s sheet with 4 bingo cards, the assessment sheet and the tracker. Word searches are in the pack maker, with answer keys.
For single words, the word tracing worksheets and the flashcard maker work too; for spelling lists in cursive, try the cursive writing worksheets generator.
Dolch published the list in “A Basic Sight Vocabulary” (The Elementary School Journal, vol. 36, no. 6, 1936) and again in Problems in Reading (1948). Copies online do not all agree, so we checked every level on October 1, 2026 against two independent copies that match each other level by level (one spells “good-bye” as “goodbye”):
The Wikipedia copy of the list (checked the same day) adds “left” to second grade and “goat”, “woman” and “women” to the nouns, and leaves out “good-bye”, which is why its counts come to 47 and 97 instead of 46 and 95. You can download the whole list as a CSV file (level, number and word).
Put the details after a # in the address and this page opens with the worksheet already filled in — handy for a class newsletter, a bookmark or a link from a chat assistant. The part after # stays in your browser; it is never sent to our server.
Parameters
#preset= a Dolch level: pre-primer, primer, first, second, third or nouns#words= your own list instead, separated with |#name= the child’s name (optional)Combine several with & (for example #title=…&words=…). Separate list items with |.
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A list of 220 frequently used “service words” (the, and, said, because…) plus 95 common nouns, compiled by Edward William Dolch and published in 1936 and again in his 1948 book Problems in Reading. Schools still split the 220 words into five levels — pre-primer, primer, first, second and third grade — for children to learn to read at a glance.
315 in total: 220 service words (40 pre-primer, 52 primer, 41 first grade, 46 second grade, 41 third grade) and 95 nouns. Some copies online add “left” to second grade or “goat”, “woman” and “women” to the nouns; this page follows Dolch’s 220 + 95.
The primer list (52 words) is the one usually called the kindergarten sight words; the pre-primer list (40 words) is for pre-K or the start of kindergarten. Your child’s school may have its own list — paste it in the pack maker and every page uses exactly those words.
A cover with the word list, flashcards (8 per sheet, optional backs for two-sided printing), read-trace-write sheets, bingo cards with a caller’s sheet, word searches with answer keys, a big-print sheet for the child to read aloud and a progress tracker with four test dates. Every page uses the same words.
Write the date at the top of a column, show the child the words on the assessment sheet one at a time and tick the ones read right away, without sounding them out. Repeat every week or two in the next column. On this page you can also tap the words your child already knows: they are remembered on this device only, and the pack maker can leave them out.
The Fry list (Edward Fry’s 1,000 Instant Words) is a different, larger list. This page sticks to Dolch, whose list is short enough to finish in the early grades. If your school uses Fry words, paste the week’s words into the pack maker as your own list.