Dolch Pre-Primer and Primer 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 40 Pre-Primer and 52 Primer 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, big rounded letters and room to write.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (46 pages)

• 30 student pages in 6 page types (below), each with a big "My name" line and one short instruction
• 92 words: the 40 Pre-Primer and 52 Primer words in this file's word bank, in 10 sets of 8 to 10 words (Pre-Primer 1-4, Primer 1-6), in the list's own order
• 10 Rainbow Write pages: every one of the 92 words, printed solid, then three faded copies to trace in red, blue and green, then a primary-lines box to write it alone
• 5 Find and Color pages: a Word Box of 17 to 20 words and a shuffled grid of 30 words; 92 words to find in all
• 5 Missing Letter pages: 89 words with one letter left out (a box) and a Word Box to check; on every page only one word in the box fits each blank
• 5 Build a Sentence pages: 10 five-word sentences, 50 cut-and-glue pieces, two rows a page that take 5 straight cuts
• 4 Read and Draw pages: 12 sentences, each read three times (three circles) and drawn in a big box
• 22 different sentences in all, all invented; every sentence has at least 4 words that are on the Pre-Primer or Primer list, and the other words are 19 everyday words (bug, ball, cat, house and so on)
• 1 word-list page with every set and its page numbers, 2 answer keys generated from the same data as the pages
• 1 tracker (29 rows), 1 class progress grid, 1 team note, 1 home page, 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (17 starters)
• 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page, and a back page

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, 10 pages) — 8 to 10 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, 5 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 from the same list and are not in the box.

4. Missing Letter (2 dots, 5 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. 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

Kindergarten and 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 two word lists, 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 lists are the ones typed into this file's word bank (40 Pre-Primer words, 52 Primer words, no word on both); if your program uses a different version of either list, the word-list page has a blank line for it. The words a, I and me are on Rainbow Write and Find and Color but not on Missing Letter (one letter, or a blank that would fit a neighbor on its page).