Dolch Grade 1 Sight Words Set 3
THANK and THINK are almost the same word — change one vowel and you switch from gratitude to thought. The Grade 1 list is full of these near-twins, and learning to spot the small difference is part of becoming a…
MonsterWordsearch
Free Printable word searches for all
MonsterWordsearch
Free Printable word searches for all
Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 6
RHYTHM has six letters and not a single vowel among them. Two Ys carry the whole word, doing a job the language usually hands to A, E, I, O or U. It is a small reminder that English spelling keeps…
Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 7
YACHT is five letters long, and three of them — the A, the C and the H — conspire to make almost no sound at all. It looks nothing like it is spoken, and it is a fitting word to…
Dolch Pre-Primer Sight Words Set 1
Around half of every page a child reads is made up of just a few hundred words — and the Dolch list is where those words begin. Master these, and reading stops being a series of sounded-out struggles and starts…
Dolch Pre-Primer Sight Words Set 2
Many of these words are only two or three letters long, which makes them feel easy. But the shortest words are the ones a child reads most — and reading them instantly, without hesitation, is what early fluency is built…
Dolch Pre-Primer Sight Words Set 3
There’s a quiet milestone in a young child’s reading life: the moment THE stops being three puzzling letters and becomes a word they simply know. It is the most common word in English, and recognizing it on sight is one…
Dolch Primer Sight Words Set 1
ATE and the number EIGHT sound exactly alike, yet one is three letters and the other is five. The Primer level is where children begin meeting words that sound the same but look completely different — and learning to tell…
Dolch Primer Sight Words Set 2
HAVE looks like it should follow the magic-E rule and rhyme with CAVE and GAVE. It doesn’t — the A stays short. It’s a small reminder that even helpful patterns have exceptions, and that some words just have to be…
Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 5
QUEUE has five letters and only the first two make any sound. The Q and the U do all the work; the remaining U, E, U, E simply queue up behind them, silent and waiting. It is the most patient…
Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 3
FORTY quietly drops the U that FOUR insists on. We count four, fourteen, and then — without warning — forty. It is the kind of small inconsistency that catches careful spellers off guard precisely because they are paying attention. This…
Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 4
MISCHIEVOUS is a word children love to over-spell. They hear an extra syllable that is not there and write “mis-chiev-i-ous”, adding an I that does not belong. The correct word is simpler than it sounds — and that gap between…
Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 2
COMMITTEE doubles three different letters — the M, the T and the E. It is the only word on the entire primary spelling list to do so, and getting all three doublings right is a genuine test of careful spelling.…