Dolch words

The Dolch word list is a list of frequently used English words compiled by Edward William Dolch, a professor at the University of Illinois, in the 1930s and 1940s. The list is divided into categories, such as “pre-primer,” “primer,” “first grade,” “second grade,” and “third grade,” and contains words that students in those grade levels are expected to recognize and know how to read and spell.

The Dolch list includes commonly used words that are not easily sounded out, such as “the,” “said,” and “was,” as well as basic sight words that students need to recognize by sight, such as “a,” “an,” and “the.” The list was created as a way to help teachers and students focus on the most frequently used words in the English language, and to develop reading and spelling skills by learning to recognize these words quickly and easily.

The Dolch list has been widely used in elementary schools in the United States, and is still used today as a tool for teaching reading and spelling. The list has also been adapted and expanded over the years to include additional words and phrases that are commonly used in modern English.

Nouns

apple, baby, back, ball, bear, bed, bell, bird, birthday, boat, box, boy, bread, brother, cake, car, cat, chair, chicken, children, Christmas, oat, corn, cow, day, dog, doll, door, duck, egg, eye, farm, farmer, father, feet, , fire, fish, floor, flower, game, garden, girl, good-bye, 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, robi, 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

Non-nouns

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, 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, after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, giving, 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, 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, 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

By grade

Pre-primer

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

Primer

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

1st Grade

after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, giving, 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

2nd Grade

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

3rd Grade

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