Pre-Primer Dolch Lists, Recording Sheet, Cards & Worksheets

FREE PDF Downloads! The Dolch sight word lists were developed by Dr. Edward William Dolch. He compiled the lists based on the high frequency words that appeared in children’s books in the 1930s and 40s.

There are 40 pre-primer dolch 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

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Dolch Pre-Primer Word List
Simple sheet with the 40 pre-primer words listed.
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Dolch Pre-Primer Recording Sheet
Includes a space to record the date and check off words as they are mastered.
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Dolch Pre-Primer Printable Cards (10 pages)
Larger printable list for flashcards, assembling into a mini-book or display, etc.
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Build A Word Worksheets
Worksheets for rainbow writing, tracing and building with cut-and-paste.  You can make more custom build-a-word sheets using our build-a-word worksheet maker.

This file includes worksheets for the following preprimer Dolch words: look, go, help, make, here, little

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Dolch Pre-Primer Words
Another pre-primer word list.
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