Dolch First Grade Sight Word Worksheets

About this resource

Sight words are the words a child has to know without sounding out, and a child needs to meet each one more than once, in more than one way. This is a complete practice kit for the 41 First Grade words in this file's word bank: say it, trace it in three colors, write it, find it in a grid, fill in the missing letter, put five word pieces in order, and read a sentence and draw it. Every student page has a big "My name" line and big rounded letters; Rainbow Write has writing boxes on primary lines.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (37 pages)

THE SIX PAGE TYPES (dots show the level, never color)

1. Say It, Trace It, Write It (1 dot) — the routine on one word: say it, trace it in three colors, write it alone.

2. Rainbow Write (1 dot, 5 pages) — 8 or 9 words a page. Each row: the word solid, three faded copies with a red, a blue and a green dot, and a primary-lines box.

3. Find and Color (2 dots, 3 pages) — a Word Box, then a grid of 30 words in a shuffled order; the child colors each word that is in the box. The other words in the grid are First Grade words that are not in the box.

4. Missing Letter (2 dots, 3 pages) — a word with one letter out. The blank is placed so that only one word in that page's Word Box fits it.

5. Build a Sentence (3 dots, 5 pages) — cut ten pieces (five words to a sentence, first piece with a capital letter, last with the end mark) and glue each sentence in order on its row. No piece starts in its own place.

6. Read and Draw (3 dots, 4 pages) — read a sentence three times, color a circle each time, draw it in a big box.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, large rounded letters, and writing boxes on primary lines at least 0.5 inch tall on Rainbow Write. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult. No picture is used for a sight word, so no picture can name the wrong word. Cutting is limited to Build a Sentence (10 pieces a page, each 1.4 inches wide and 1.3 inches tall, touching edge to edge) and the divider tabs.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note, the home page and the note boxes are type-in fields in any PDF reader. The tracing, the writing, the coloring and the cutting are pencil, crayon and scissors work. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

First grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher working with an older student who still needs these words. The home page sends the same job to a family; the team note hands off what changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Practice pages for one word list, with the record-keeping around them. It is not a probe, a goal bank or a score sheet, and it makes no claim about any student's age or rate of progress. The word list is the one typed into this file's word bank (41 words, none typed twice, none on this store's Pre-Primer or Primer lists); if your program uses a different version of the list, the word-list page has a box for it.