Colouring NestDolch Nouns: Flash Cards and Worksheets
- Ages 5–8
- Easy
- 8 pages
- Worksheet
- PDF: Letter & A4
Tip: download the PDF for Letter or A4 paper, print it at 100% and use a pencil or crayon.
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All 95 Dolch nouns on 8 pages of cut-out flash cards, 12 cards to a page in big, clear letters, starting with “apple”, “baby”, “back” and “ball”. Dolch picked these 95 nouns from early reading books; they suit kindergarten to second grade. Print the cards on card stock and cut along the dashed lines. Below the cards are this level’s checklist and its read-and-color practice sheet.
Flash cards
8 pages, 12 cards a page.
Checklist
Read, spell and write tick boxes for every word.
Read and color sheet
120 word boxes to read and color.
The 95 Dolch nouns
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, good-bye, 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.
Other levels: Pre-PrimerPrimerFirst GradeSecond GradeThird GradeAll sight words
Where the words come from
The word lists come from Edward W. Dolch’s Problems in Reading (1948), which is in the public domain. Our copy was taken from the Wikipedia article “Dolch word list” (revision of 21 June 2022), checked against Dolch’s published counts: 220 service words in five levels and 95 nouns. We don’t use the Fry lists.
For teachers and parents
- What it practises
- Reading Dolch sight words by sight, spelling, letter formation and handwriting, visual scanning
- How to use it
- Read the word together and spell it out loud, then color, trace and write it. Find it in the grid and say a sentence with it before writing one. For the level sheets, cut out the flash cards and practise five to ten words a day.
- Time
- About 10–15 minutes
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More sight words
For parents & teachers: Sight Words Games Pack, a printable pack from our shop.
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Printing tips
- Print flash cards on card stock (160 gsm or more) so they last; laminate a set for the classroom.
- Print at 100% (actual size); the PDFs are set up for US Letter and A4.
- Use a highlighter or crayon on the word find so the found words stay visible.
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