Dolch Grade 3 Sight Words Set 3
TOGETHER is three small words holding hands — TO, GET and HER, joined into one. It’s a fitting word to end the Dolch list on, because by now a child can see the familiar pieces inside a longer word and…

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TOGETHER is three small words holding hands — TO, GET and HER, joined into one. It’s a fitting word to end the Dolch list on, because by now a child can see the familiar pieces inside a longer word and…
EIGHT uses four letters — E, I, G, H — to spell a single sound, then adds a T. It’s one of the strangest spellings a young reader meets, and a fitting word to open the final level of the…
LAUGH ends in a sound that none of its letters seem to make. The GH at the end says “f,” a quiet leftover from older English, and a third grader simply has to know it — there’s no way to…
WRITE begins with a letter you can’t hear. The W sits silently in front, and a second grader has to learn to write a letter that vanishes the moment the word is spoken — one of English’s quietest tricks. This…
READ is two words wearing one spelling. “I read today” and “I will read tomorrow” look identical on the page but sound completely different. Only the sentence around it tells a reader which one is meant — an early lesson…
BECAUSE is a word second graders use all the time and misspell almost as often. Its AU makes a sound you’d never predict from the letters, which is exactly why it has to be learned by sight rather than sounded…
KNOW begins with a letter that makes no sound at all. The K sits silently at the front, a quiet survivor from older English, and a child has to learn to look past it to the word underneath. This second…
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…
THE, THIS, THAT, THERE, THEY — so many of the words a child reads most often begin with the same two letters. The “th” sound is one of the first a young reader must recognize at a glance, because it…
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHO — the question words nearly all begin with “wh”, and a child who recognizes that opening can start to read questions with ease. This set brings several of them together at once. This is the fourth…
COULD hides a silent L right in the middle. A first grader can say the word easily, but spelling it means remembering a letter they can’t hear at all — and that gap is exactly what the Grade 1 list…
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…