Kindergarten Sight Words List and Printables

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Priscilla Gragg
Priscilla Gragg

Sight words or Dolch words, are vocabulary words that need to be memorized by sight in order to achieve language and reading fluency. Some sight words are abstract or can't be sounded out phonetically; but by learning to recognize them instantaneously, kids can decipher new words within a context.

In 1948, Edward William Dolch, Ph.D., published a list of 220 common "service" or "tool" words (including adjectives, prepositions, verbs, etc.) in the book Problems With Reading. The list was divided by grade (pre-K to third), and was compiled after analyzing various children's books published since 1936. Dolch later compiled a separate sight-words list of 95 nouns, but his original list is still commonly referred to and used today.

Here's look at the Dolch sight words for kindergarten. Simply write them down on index cards to make your own learning tool, or download printable sight-words flash cards here.

Dolch Kindergarten Sight 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

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