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Edward William Dolch, Ph.D. compiled a list of commonly used English words that must be learned, so they can be instantly recognized by sight.

All About Dolch

Despite conducting his research many decades ago, Dolch’s sight words are still used in many classrooms.

  • Meet Dolch – The Father of Sight Words!
  • Dolch Sight Words – How Did Dolch Derive His List?

Dolch Sight Words List

Dolch’s list contains 220 sight words, he referred to these words as service words. He intentionally excluded nouns from this list but did publish another list containing 95 common nouns.

  • Dolch Sight Words – in Alphabetical Order
  • Dolch Sight Words – by Level of Difficulty
  • Pre-primer Primer First Grade Second Grade Third Grade
  • Dolch Sight Words – by Parts of Speech
  • Dolch List of 95 Nouns – Alphabetical Order

Other Related Dolch Articles

Other scholars used sight words to help children learn to read.

  • Dolch List is not the Only Sight Word List – Have you heard about Fry?
  • Dolch and Dr. Seuss – Had something in common!

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Fry’s Sight Words List

More recently, Fry published a list of the most common words in English and ranked them in order of frequency. The first 25 words make up approximately a third of all written material. The first 100 and 300 words make up about 50% and 65% of all printed material, respectively.

  • Fry’s Sight Words – in Alphabetical Order
  • Fry’s Sight Words – in Frequency Order
  • Fry’s Sight Words – by Parts of Speech

Other Sight Word Related Articles

The following articles can offer some additional insight into sight words.

  • Top 10 Sight Words
  • Today’s Most Common Words
  • Erudition’s Sight Words

Sight Words

Sight words are common words that are found in everyday print; they make up over 50% of all written material. They must be learned so they are recognized automatically – at first sight.

Sight Words Overview

Introduction to Sight Words – What are sight words?
Teaching Sight Words – Provides great teaching tips!
Benefits of Sight Words – The advantages are numerous.

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  1. Sight Words Can Really Speed Up Homeschool Reading Fluency – Trivium Mastery says:
    October 9, 2014 at 7:02 am

    […] child to these most-frequently used words, the more familiar these words will become. In fact, if Dr. Fry’s theory that the top 100 sight words appear in over half of written texts, then reading aloud would be the easiest way to teach sight words because you wouldn’t even […]

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    July 5, 2019 at 2:11 pm

    […] This app is ideal for kids in pre-K to third grade as it uses Dolch words (220 of the most common words in the English language). Read more about Edward William Dolch, Ph.D. and Dolch words here! […]

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