The Complete Dolch Word List
Developed in 1948 by Edward William Dolch, Ph.D, the Dolch high frequency word list has held up amazingly well in teaching beginning reading.
While you can find the Dolch words in various books, learning activity tutorials, early literacy lesson plans, flash cards, word puzzles and other forms, we have published the complete list below for your convenience.
Pre-primer
and, big, can, for, in, is, it, me, one
a, I, my, not, red, run, see, the, to, up, we
blue, come, down, find, go, look, play, said, two, you
away, funny, help, here, jump, little, make, three, where, yellow
Primer
all, am, are, ate, be, do, he, on, saw, say, so, she
but, did, eat, into, new, no, our, too, was, will, with, yes
at, came, now, out, ride, ran, soon, this, want, who
get, must, there, they, under, well, went, what, white
black, brown, four, good, have, like, please, pretty, that
First Grade
after, again, as, by, fly, of, over, round, some, take
give, had, has, how, may, stop, thank, them, then, think
any, ask, giving, him, just, let, live, open, walk, were
an, could, every, from, her, his, know, old, once, put, when
Second Grade
always, around, because, been, does, fast, first, five, sing, sit, sleep
before, best, don’t, found, gave, goes, green, pull, read, right, tell, their
both, buy, its, made, many, off, or, these, those, upon, very, would
call, cold, us, use, wash, which, why, wish, work, write, your
Third Grade
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




My daughter was in reading help last year and I wanted to keep up her reading skills during the summer. This list will help me to reinforce her reading abilities. After dinner we will sit down and read through the list and I will make sure she knows all those words for her grade level. She will be entering the second grade.
Thanks for your help,
Camille
Would you happen to have the Dolch list words from grades 4 to 6 ?
I would like to have access to these please?
Thanks, Mike
Here’s a link for you Mike:
http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:qmXwLfGd730J:www.vdps.net/DOLCH%25204.doc+4th+grade+dolch+words&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
Regards,
Teaching Resource Center Support Team