Sight words printable

Sight words (also called high-frequency words) are the most commonly used words in English—words like the, and, is, you—that young readers need to recognize instantly (without sounding them out) to build fluency and confidence. Mastering sight words is a foundational step for learning to read, write, and comprehend text, making them essential for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary students.

Our sight words printable PDFs include the two most trusted sight word lists: Dolch and Fry. All files are free, easy to download, and designed for classroom, homeschool, or at-home practice. Print them, laminate them, or use them for flashcards—perfect for teachers, parents, and tutors!


Dolch Sight Words Printable PDFs

What Is the Dolch Sight Words List?

Created by Edward William Dolch in the 1930s-40s, the Dolch sight words list features 220 “service words” (nouns excluded) plus 95 noun sight words. These words make up 80% of the text in children’s books and early readers, making them a must-learn for young students.

Dolch Sight Words Printable by Grade/Level

Download our grade-specific Dolch sight words PDFs—organized for easy practice:

Pre-Kindergarten
Pre-K Dolch Sight Words pdf
Pre-K Dolch Sight Words pdf

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

Kindergarten
Kindergarten Dolch Sight Words pdf
Kindergarten Dolch Sight Words pdf

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

First Grade
First Grade Dolch Sight Words pdf
First Grade Dolch Sight Words pdf

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

Second Grade
Second Grade Dolch Sight Words pdf
Second Grade Dolch Sight Words pdf

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

Third Grade
Third Grade Dolch Sight Words pdf
Third Grade Dolch Sight Words pdf

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

Noun Dolch Sight Words
Noun Dolch Sight Words pdf
Noun Dolch Sight Words pdf

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

All Dolch Sight Words by group
All Dolch Sight Words (pdf) by group
All Dolch Sight Words (pdf) by group
All Dolch Sight Words in alphabetical order
All Dolch Sight Words (pdf) in alphabetical order
All Dolch Sight Words (pdf) in alphabetical order

Features of Our Dolch Sight Words Printables

  • Large, easy-to-read font for young learners
  • Alphabetized and grade-level organized
  • Blank practice spaces for tracing/writing
  • Color-coded by grade (print in black & white or color)
  • No watermarks—100% free to print and use

Fry Sight Words Printable PDFs

What Is the Fry Sight Words List?

Updated for modern English by Dr. Edward Fry, the Fry sight words list includes 1,000 high-frequency words divided into 10 groups (100 words each). These words represent 90% of the words found in newspapers, books, and school materials—ideal for students from kindergarten through 6th grade and beyond.

Fry Sight Words Printable by Frequency List

Our Fry sight words PDFs are split into manageable 100-word sets:

1st 100
1st 100 Fry Sight Words pdf
1st 100 Fry Sight Words pdf

a, about, all, am, an, and, are, as, at, be, been, but, by, called, can, come, could, day, did, do, down, each, find, first, for, from, get, go, had, has, have, he, her, him, his, how, I, if, in, into, is, it, its, like, long, look, made, make, many, may, more, my, no, not, now, number, of, on, one, or, other, out, part, people, said, see, she, so, some, than, that, the, their, them, then, there, these, they, this, time, to, two, up, use, was, water, way, we, were, what, when, which, who, will, with, words, would, write, you, your


2nd 100
2nd 100 Fry Sight Words pdf
2nd 100 Fry Sight Words pdf

after, again, air, also, America, animal, another, answer, any, around, ask, away, back, because, before, big, boy, came, change, different, does, end, even, follow, form, found, give, good, great, hand, help, here, home, house, just, kind, know, land, large, learn, letter, line, little, live, man, me, means, men, most, mother, move, much, must, name, need, new, off, old, only, our, over, page, picture, place, play, point, put, read, right, same, say, sentence, set, should, show, small, sound, spell, still, study, such, take, tell, things, think, three, through, too, try, turn, us, very, want, well, went, where, why, work, world, years


3rd 100
3rd 100 Fry Sight Words pdf
3rd 100 Fry Sight Words pdf

above, add, almost, along, always, began, begin, being, below, between, book, both, car, carry, children, city, close, country, cut, don’t, earth, eat, enough, every, example, eyes, face, family, far, father, feet, few, food, four, girl, got, group, grow, hard, head, hear, high, idea, important, Indian, it’s, keep, last, late, leave, left, let, life, light, list, might, mile, miss, mountains, near, never, next, night, often, once, open, own, paper, plant, real, river, run, saw, school, sea, second, seem, side, something, sometimes, song, soon, start, state, stop, story, talk, those, thought, together, took, tree, under, until, walk, watch, while, white, without, young

4th 100
4th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf
4th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf

 across, against, area, become, best, better, birds, black, body, certain, cold, color, complete, covered, cried, didn’t, dog, door, draw, during, early, easy, ever, fall, farm, fast, field, figure, fire, fish, five, friends, ground, happened, heard, himself, hold, horse, hours, however, hundred, I’ll, king, knew, listen, low, map, mark, measure, money, morning, music, north, notice, numeral, order, passed, pattern, piece, plan, problem, products, pulled, questions, reached, red, remember, rock, room, seen, several, ship, short, since, sing, slowly, south, space, stand, step, sun, sure, table, today, told, top, toward, town, travel, true, unit, upon, usually, voice, vowel, war, waves, whole, wind, wood

5th 100
5th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf
5th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf

able, ago, among, ball, base, became, behind, boat, box, bread, bring, brought, building, built, cannot, carefully, check, circle, class, clear, common, contain, correct, course, dark, decided, deep, done, dry, English, equation, explain, fact, feel, filled, finally, fine, fly, force, front, full, game, gave, government, green, half, heat, heavy, hot, inches, include, inside, island, known, language, less, machine, material, minutes, note, nothing, noun, object, ocean, oh, pair, person, plane, power, produce, quickly, ran, rest, road, round, rule, scientists, shape, shown, six, size, special, stars, stay, stood, street, strong, surface, system, ten, though, thousands, understand, verb, wait, warm, week, wheels, yes, yet

6th 100

6th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf
6th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf

anything, arms, beautiful, believe, beside, bill, blue, brother, can’t, cause, cells, center, clothes, dance, describe, developed, difference, direction, discovered, distance, divided, drive, drop, edge, eggs, energy, Europe, exercise, farmers, felt, finished, flowers, forest, general, gone, grass, happy, heart, held, instruments, interest, job, kept, lay, legs, length, love, main, matter, meet, members, million, mind, months, moon, paint, paragraph, past, perhaps, picked, present, probably, race, rain, raised, ready, reason, record, region, represent, return, root, sat, shall, sign, simple, site, sky, soft, square, store, subject, suddenly, sum, summer, syllables, teacher, test, third, train, wall, weather, west, whether, wide, wild, window, winter, wish, written

7th 100
7th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf
7th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf

act, Africa, age, already, although, amount, angle, appear, baby, bear, beat, bed, bottom, bright, broken, build, buy, care, case, cat, century, consonant, copy, couldn’t, count, cross, dictionary, died, dress, either, everyone, everything, exactly, factors, fight, fingers, floor, fraction, free, French, gold, hair, hill, hole, hope, ice, instead, iron, jumped, killed, lake, laughed, lead, let’s, lot, melody, metal, method, middle, milk, moment, nation, natural, outside, per, phrase, poor, possible, pounds, pushed, quiet, quite, remain, result, ride, rolled, sail, scale, section, sleep, smiled, snow, soil, solve, someone, son, speak, speed, spring, stone, surprise, tall, temperature, themselves, tiny, trip, type, village, within, wonder

8th 100
8th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf
8th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf

alone, art, bad, bank, bit, break, brown, burning, business, captain, catch, caught, cents, child, choose, clean, climbed, cloud, coast, continued, control, cool, cost, decimal, desert, design, direct, drawing, ears, east, else, engine, England, equal, experiment, express, feeling, fell, flow, foot, garden, gas, glass, God, grew, history, human, hunting, increase, information, itself, joined, key, lady, law, least, lost, maybe, mouth, party, pay, period, plains, please, practice, president, received, report, ring, rise, row, save, seeds, sent, separate, serve, shouted, single, skin, statement, stick, straight, strange, students, suppose, symbols, team, touch, trouble, uncle, valley, visit, wear, whose, wire, woman, wrote, yard, you’re, yourself

9th 100
9th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf
9th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf

addition, army, bell, belong, block, blood, blow, board, bones, branches, cattle, chief, compare, compound, consider, cook, corner, crops, crowd, current, doctor, dollars, eight, electric, elements, enjoy, entered, except, exciting, expect, famous, fit, flat, fruit, fun, guess, hat, hit, indicate, industry, insects, interesting, Japanese, lie, lifted, loud, major, mall, meat, mine, modern, movement, necessary, observe, park, particular, planets, poem, pole, position, process, property, provide, rather, rhythm, rich, safe, sand, science, sell, send, sense, seven, sharp, shoulder, sight, silent, soldiers, spot, spread, stream, string, suggested, supply, swim, terms, thick, thin, thus, tied, tone, trade, tube, value, wash, wasn’t, weight, wife, wings, won’t

10th 100
10th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf
10th 100 Fry Sight Words pdf

action, actually, adjective, afraid, agreed, ahead, allow, apple, arrived, born, bought, British, capital, chance, chart, church, column, company, conditions, corn, cotton, cows, create, dead, deal, death, details, determine, difficult, division, doesn’t, effect, entire, especially, evening, experience, factories, fair, fear, fig, forward, France, fresh, Greek, gun, hoe, huge, isn’t, led, level, located, march, match, molecules, northern, nose, office, opposite, oxygen, plural, prepared, pretty, printed, radio, repeated, rope, rose, score, seat, settled, shoes, shop, similar, sir, sister, smell, solution, southern, steel, stretched, substances, suffix, sugar, tools, total, track, triangle, truck, underline, various, view, Washington, we’ll, western, win, women, workers, wouldn’t, wrong, yellow

All Fry Sight Words by group
All Fry Sight Words (pdf) by group
All Fry Sight Words (pdf) by group
All Fry Sight Words in order of frequency
All Fry Sight Words (pdf) in order of frequency
All Fry Sight Words (pdf) in order of frequency
All Fry Sight Words in alphabetical order
All Fry Sight Words (pdf) in alphabetical order
All Fry Sight Words (pdf) in alphabetical order

Features of Our Fry Sight Words Printables

  • Sorted by frequency (most common first)
  • Practice worksheets with fill-in-the-blank activities
  • Flashcard-friendly layout (print double-sided for self-quizzing)
  • Compatible with home and classroom printers
  • Adapts to different learning styles (visual, kinesthetic)

How to Use Our Sight Words Printables

Tips for Teachers & Parents

  1. Flashcards: Print the lists, cut into individual words, and use for daily quizzing.
  2. Tracing Practice: Have students trace the words to build handwriting skills.
  3. Sight Word Games: Use the printables for bingo, memory, or “word hunt” activities.
  4. Progress Tracking: Mark mastered words on the PDF to monitor growth.
  5. Home & School Alignment: Send printables home with students to reinforce classroom learning.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Are these sight words printables really free?

A: Yes! All our Dolch and Fry sight words PDFs are 100% free to download, print, and use—no subscriptions or hidden fees.

Q: What’s the difference between Dolch and Fry sight words?

A: Dolch is a shorter list (220 service words + 95 nouns) focused on early readers (preschool-3rd grade), while Fry is a longer, updated list (1000 words) covering K-6th grade and beyond.

Q: Can I use these printables for commercial use (e.g., in my tutoring business)?

A: Yes—our printables are licensed for non-commercial and educational commercial use (tutoring, classrooms, homeschool co-ops).

Q: Are the PDFs compatible with all printers?

A: Yes! The files are saved as standard PDF format, optimized for 8.5×11 inch (US letter) paper, and work with inkjet, laser, and home printers.


Conclusion

Mastering sight words is the key to unlocking reading fluency for young learners. Our free sight words printable PDFs (Dolch and Fry lists) make practice easy, affordable, and effective—whether you’re a teacher, parent, or homeschooler. Download your grade-specific lists today and help build confident, lifelong readers!

Sight words printable
Sight words printable