Pre-K sight words
The Dolch pre-primer set of forty words — the ones that turn a list of single words into a sentence: a, the, and, is, go, see, my. These are the words to meet first, in the order a reader will meet them.
The Dolch pre-primer set of 40 sight words, listed for recognition practice.
The pre-primer set is the first of the five Dolch grade sets, and it holds the forty words that turn a list of single words into a sentence: a, the, and, is, go, see, my. Most of them are too abstract to sound out, which is exactly why they are taught to be recognised on sight. This list is a reference — the words to meet first, in the order a reader will meet them.
How many words a week
A common starting point is five words a week, with each group revisited a day later, three days later and a week later. The number is a range, not a rule, and it is a teaching choice rather than a fact about a child.
Nothing here is a claim about any child's progress. The list is filed by grade the way the material is organised, never as a statement about a reader.
Pre-K Sight Words Tracing Worksheet
Pre-primer sight words in dashed form to trace over, one word to a line, on a guide rule.
This tracing sheet draws its words from the Dolch pre-primer set, the forty words that appear first in early reading. Each word is shown in dashed form on a guide line so the hand can follow the whole shape. Tracing the shortest words — a, and, big, can — before they are met in text is the gentlest introduction a list can offer. It pairs with the pre-primer word list.
Free to print. Use these sheets at home or in a classroom, as many copies as you need, at no cost and without asking. Please don't sell them, or repost them as your own.