Dolch words for kindergarten

Dolch Sight Words List | Sight Words: Teach Your Child to Read

All the Dolch sight word lists, divided by grade, also available as printable PDFs.

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Five techniques for teaching Dolch sight words. Learn proven ways to introduce words, reinforce learning, and correct mistakes.

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Print a set of Dolch sight word flash cards, or use our generator to create your own custom cards.

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Print cards and game boards for 18 Dolch sight word games. A fun way to reinforce sight words lessons!

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The Dolch Sight Words list is the most commonly used set of sight words. Educator Dr. Edward William Dolch developed the list in the 1930s-40s by studying the most frequently occurring words in children’s books of that era. The list contains 220 “service words” plus 95 high-frequency nouns. These words comprise 80% of the words you would find in a typical children’s book and 50% of the words found in writing for adults. Once a child knows this list of words, it makes reading much easier, because the child can then focus his or her attention on the remaining words.

The Dolch words are commonly divided into groups by grade level, ranging from pre-kindergarten to third grade, with a separate list of nouns. There are a total of 315 Dolch Sight Words.

• Pre-K Dolch Sight Words
  (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 Dolch Sight Words
  (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 Dolch Sight Words
  (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 Dolch Sight Words
  (46 words)

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

• Noun Dolch Sight Words
  (95 words)

  apple, baby, back, ball, bear, bed, bell, bird, birthday, boat, box, boy, bread, brother, cake, car, cat, chair, chicken, children, Christmas, coat, corn, cow, day, dog, doll, door, duck, egg, eye, farm, farmer, father, feet, fire, fish, floor, flower, game, garden, girl, goodbye, grass, ground, hand, head, hill, home, horse, house, kitty, leg, letter, man, men, milk, money, morning, mother, name, nest, night, paper, party, picture, pig, rabbit, rain, ring, robin, Santa Claus, school, seed, sheep, shoe, sister, snow, song, squirrel, stick, street, sun, table, thing, time, top, toy, tree, watch, water, way, wind, window, wood

• All Dolch Sight Words by group
• All Dolch Sight Words in alphabetical order

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Dolch Kindergarten

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© Contributed by Leanne Guenther

From 50-75% of all words used in school books, library books, newspapers, and magazines are in the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary of 220 words (preschool thru Grade 3).   The Dolch word list is made up of "service words" (pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and verbs) which cannot be learned through the use of pictures.

In this section I've included a series of flashcards that can be printed and used to reinforce learning, the complete list of preschool words (see table) and some activity ideas for using the flashcards.

Set 1

Set 2

Set 3

Set 4

Set 4 in color

Nouns 1

Nouns 2

Nouns 1 in color

Nouns 2 in color

Bingo Cards

Complete Kindergarten List

Ideas for Using the Flashcards:

The flashcards can simply be held up, giving the child the opportunity to read each one.   But if you're looking for a more engaging activity, try combining the Dolch flashcards with the noun picture flashcards for a variety of activities (I've listed some suggestions here from simplest to hardest).  If you're printing the cards for one of the higher grades, you should consider printing the ones for previous grades as well -- the Dolch words are cummulative and you'll be able to make more complex sentences.

• ACTIVITY ONE:

     

  • have an adult arrange the flashcards to form a sentence. 
  • Read the sentence with/to the child
  • Remove one of the dolch words from the sentence and put it back in the pile (you may want to make the pile smaller in the beginning to make the activity easier). 
  • Give the pile to the child and have them find the correct card to place back in the sentence.
  • Re-read the sentence.
• ACTIVITY TWO:

        

  • have an adult arrange the flashcards to form a sentence, leaving one card out.
  • read the incomplete sentence with/to the child.
  • present between 2 and 5 cards to the child (one of them should make the sentence complete)
  • have the child chose which is the correct card
  • re-read the sentence with the card chosen.  Talk about whether it makes sense or not.
• ACTIVITY THREE:
  • provide the child with all or part of the pile of flashcards
  • allow them to create their own sentences using the cards
  • read the sentences with them and talk about what they've created.
  • OPTIONAL:  Have them glue their completed sentence to the bottom of a piece of construction paper and draw a picture of their sentence on the top.  (author/illustrator of their own story).

Teasers and stupid rhymes in the USSR » Museum of the USSR

Among the usual counting rhymes in our childhood, we had stupid short rhymes, name-calling and teasers. This children's folklore was sometimes born out of nothing: a word accidentally dropped or incorrectly said by a child turned into an intricate teaser. Later, the poems were overgrown with “tails”, new quatrains were added to them, and the composed work was transferred from one court to another and so walked around the country.

While some may consider teasing to be the cause of children's conflicts, in fact, children need this unpretentious folklore to express their feelings and just for the sake of laughter. By the way, they were rarely offended.
Among teasers and name-calling names, teasers for chubby or too thin, for bespectacled men and bullies, teasers for roars (those who cry loudly), fashionistas and in general for all occasions.

Now children have become advanced, they search everything on the Internet, share in social networks, but they almost never compose themselves. There were only ridicule rhymes from the children in kindergarten. Of course, these rhymes seem unfunny to us adults, but at a younger age we laughed at them and repeated them with rapture.
And the children came up with all sorts of funny alterations from familiar songs and then sang them in a cheerful company.
Read all these teasers, rhymes and songs and do not scold if you meet something indigestible, remember that in the clear eyes of children this is all for fun.

Ridiculous rhymes from kindergarten

Tell you a story about how grandfather shit in a stroller
And put it in a corner so no one would drag you away?
Grandmother thought - jam, and smeared cookies!
Children thought - halva, ate it all to the bottom!
***
Chi-Chi-Chi the monkey was selling bricks.
Before I had time to sell everything, I flew under the bed.
She pulled the rope and farted a little.
And the workers came: Che, bricks stink?
***
Aunt Motya lost her wallet at work,
And the police found out - they put me on the potty.
And the pot is hot, Aunt Motya is crying.
And the pot is knock-knock-knock, aunt Motya - bang-bang-bang.
***
Tili-tili-dough!
Bride and Groom!
***
Dropped Mishka on the floor,
Tear off Mishka's paw,
Rooted out tongue,
Stepped on Adam's apple.
***
Bear, Bear, come!
let's kiss!
Mom and dad are not at home,
there is nothing to be afraid of!
Why didn't you come?
I didn't find the pants.
Mom doesn't feel like it,
but Daddy drags along!
(mother's wide,
father's deep,
grandfather's prickly,
grandmother's - fu! smelly)
How could you? Well, how could you?
You're not my friend anymore!
Take your toys!
And don't pee in my pot!
Mom will buy me a goat -
I won't show you!
And the goat's name is Marusya,
I'm afraid of her myself!
Are you laughing?
Well, in vain!
Mom gave birth to you!
And my father gave birth to me,
my mother was on vacation!
***
A crocodile was walking, smoking a pipe,
The pipe fell and wrote:
Shishli thought, snot came out.
***
Christmas trees! Grandfather on a stick,
Grandma is fishing.
Grandfather went for milk,
And grandma turned somersaults.
Grandpa came without milk,
Grandma: “Ha-ha-ha!”
***
Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a woman,
They ate porridge with milk,
Grandfather got angry at the woman,
A knock on the belly with a fist,
Baba couldn't stand it either,
Grandfather got into a mess,
Grandfather put on a gas mask,
And he screams "gas in the apartment"!!!
***
Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a woman,
They ate porridge with milk,
Grandfather got angry with a woman -
Bang on the belly with a fist!
And two watermelons from the belly
Rolled under the bed
Empty under the bed, cabbage has grown.
***
Ladies on the head - fly away on a potty.
I'll take it by the handles, I'll throw it over the clouds.
***
I'll go outside,
I'll catch a chicken there.
Tie her by the tail -
It will be a locomotive!

I bought a cat
New boots.
I bought her panties,
I combed her mustache.
But how to dress them? -
The tail has nowhere to go!
***
Two little babies were walking
In a birch forest
And they lost their hats
At twelve o'clock
And some uncle was walking
And he picked up the hats
And the little babies shouted:
Stole it! Stolen! Stolen!
And at night they had a dream
Some kind of terrible dream:
As if under the bed
A gramophone is playing,
And the girls are dancing
With a loose braid,
And the little ones steal
Sausages with sausage.
***
I am a little girl
I don't go to school.
Buy me sandals -
I'm getting married!
***
Pencil kids
They took sticks and went.
Seniors caught up,
Sticks were taken away.
The kids cried
And pooped in their pants.
Give us papers-
Wipe the poop.

I am sitting on the toilet
I am crying loudly.
Why do I eat so little,
And so much poop.
***
Boy with a finger
Sat on the sofa.
Raised the leg -
Fu! - stink!
***
Brandy brandy, balalaika,
The hostess is sitting at the table.
Tryndi-bryndi, sausage.
Ah, I am pride and beauty!
***
Brandy-trandy balalaika
A babayka sits under the table
A crocodile sits on a chair
He swallowed all the dishes
And jumped into the ceiling
Having pinched his navel!
***
Today is Sunday and the girls are having fun.
And foolish boys - with a thick stick on the sides!
***
There is a glass on the table,
A lily in the glass.
Why are you looking at me,
Crocodile face!

Nausea teasers

I love green flies
And fried worms,
Cat burps
And dead meat.
Ah, what a blessing:
Skin a dead man,
And then chew it,
Drink warm pus. ..
***
A guest is sitting at the table -
There is a nail in his head.
I scored it so that the guest would not leave.
Very deep.
There is a basin on the table,
And there is an eye in the basin.
And there is also a knife -
I brought it!

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Valera, three or four years old

Examining my drawing with the nanny. I say: "This little mouse climbed here, and this one - higher, and this one is higher than everyone!"
Nanny: "Is he the bravest?"
Me: "No, the most stupid one!"

sent by Valera, now almost 11 years old

Ilyusha, 3 years old

Mom: "Ilyusha, kiss mom"
Ilyusha: "No!"
Mom: "Why?"
Ilyusha: "I'm a bad kisser!"

sent by Lilia

Ilyusha

Lyova's cat meows and Ilyusha says: "Lyova, why are you meowing, you speak, speak!"

Ivan, 2 years old

On the beach, he plays with his new toy, a bow and arrow. He fired and went to look for an arrow, he returns back with an arrow, but sad.

Mom asks: "What happened?"
Ivan: "There, aunt, I got into the room, saying stio, I must zenith on her." He thought a little and said: "No, mom, I'm happy with you."

sent by Anna

Danilka, 4.5 years old

"Grandfather, look - a rope! This is the beginning, and this is the end."

sent by Alexander

Arishka

Arina carries a huge bag of toys from one corner to another and cannot leave it to go have tea. Mom says to her: "Let me guard your package, and you go."

Arishka answered: "Mommy, you can't guard, you're not a dog!"

sent by Ekaterina

Vika, 1.5 years old

For the first time I left my grandparents to spend the night. At home I ask
- Did your grandparents like it?
Vika: - Grandfather biu, biu, baba biua, biua ... (words from a fairy tale)

sent by Svetlana

Roma, 5 years old

Roma: - When I grow up, I won't work.
Mom: - Romochka, a man has to work, earn money, he's a breadwinner.
Roma: - Yeah, the earner... the man is the woman's prey!

sent by Alina

Carolina, age 11

Caroline is standing and looking at the box of tissues with a philosophical air. I think patterns are considering (on the box are origami samples). And then she solemnly declares: “Tse rectangular parallelepiped!”

sent by Xenia

Natasha, 3 years old

Was at the dentist's with her mother, after which she said: "We were at the toothy doctor!"

sent by Elena

Tanya, 2.5 years old

Grandmother complains of abdominal pain. Tanya tells her: "Grandma, drink animal pills!"

sent by Elena

Stepan, 4 years old

- Mom, I will marry!
- On whom?
- On Margarita - she doesn't beat me anymore!

sent by Lyudmila

Margarita, 3 years old

- Margo, do you have a friend in the kindergarten?
-Yes!
-What's her name?
- Seryozha!

sent by Lyudmila

Kiryusha 1.

Dad calls and asks to give the phone to Kirill. And Kiryusha says: "Someone from daddy avayat!"

sent by Olesya

Sasha, 4 years old

Fell ill, does not go to kindergarten. Rehearsal for the holiday of March 8 in the garden. I tell my son: "Now let's go to the garden and come home." Sasha joyfully: "Hurrah! Let's go to the resignation!"

sent by Natalia

Sasha, 2 years old

Watching the program "Good night, kids!", carefully listening to the words of the final song. After the words: "We were very tired during the day," he declares: "But I was not tired, neither behind nor in front."

I am at a loss. Synulya explains: "Mom, uncle sang: Behind we are very tired!"

Sent by Natalia

Denis, 3 years old

We are going in the car. I say: "Denis, sit still, you see - the traffic police inspector is standing, watching the violators. "

The child made a smart face, we drive on - at the bus stop again the car with the inspector. Denis, without thinking for a long time, says: "Mom, sit still, Inspector GaGaBeBe!"

sent by Olga

Artyom, 6 years old

For the first time I put on skates on a skating rink, tried to run and said: "Dad, let's go to another skating rink, the ice is very slippery here!"

sent by grandmother

Katya, 4 years old

I ask:
- Daughter, what kind of yogurt do you want?
Katya, pointing to a jar on which a pineapple is drawn, gives out:
- Big! (looks like a bump)

sent by Anna

Katya, 4 years old

I am taking my daughter from kindergarten. There is no sidewalk, we walk along the edge of the roadway. Katya worries about me: "Don't go, mommy, along the path where cars drive, otherwise they will crush you and you will be crumpled ..."

sent by Anna

Gleb, 7 years old

Sleeping is even cooler than going to the movies, because you don't need tickets!

Masha 6 years old, Edik 4 years old

Masha is playing a circus with trained animals, and Edik is busy with the cars.

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