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 read the whole thing with ease.

This is the third and final set of Dolch Grade 3 sight words — and the last set of the entire Dolch list across all five levels. It gathers number words like SIX, SEVEN and TEN, the compounds TODAY and TOGETHER, and a few SH and ST words. Completing the whole list is a major milestone for a young reader — 220 words in total, the foundation of fluent reading. This word search offers a fitting way to round it all off.

OWN · PICK · SEVEN · SHALL · SHOW · SIX · SMALL · START · TEN · TODAY · TOGETHER · TRY · WARM

Number words and words built from parts

This final set has a friendly, rounded-off quality to it. Three number words sit in the grid — SIX, SEVEN, TEN. They join the numbers met in earlier Dolch puzzles: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, EIGHT (and the homophone trap of ATE/EIGHT). Children who finish the Dolch list have met every digit name from one to ten in spelling form. (The teens and higher numbers carry their own lessons — TWELVE and TWENTY, FIFTY, HUNDRED — but the foundation is laid here.)

TODAY and TOGETHER are the closing compound words, both built from familiar pieces. TODAY is TO + DAY — two words known since Pre-Primer. TOGETHER is TO + GET + HER — three words a Grade 3 reader has known for years, joined into one of the longest sight words in the list. Same compound-word principle from S43 (Series A) and B08 (UK EVERYTHING / ANYWHERE): long words are not new things to memorize, they are arrangements of pieces children already own. The whole Dolch list ends on this principle, which is fitting. SHOW and SMALL bring the long-O and OLD-style patterns one more time. START has the ST blend from S22. SHALL doubles its L (same pattern as ALL and CALL from earlier Dolch sets). And TRY uses Y as a vowel — joining MY, FLY, BY from earlier Grade 1 work. Every word in this final set rewards a child who has been building the system.

Five to notice while searching

1. TOGETHER is three words in one. Find it. Then split it with vertical lines: TO|GET|HER. Three pieces, all known since Pre-Primer or Primer. The longest sight word in the Dolch list, made of three of the shortest. Tell your child: this is the final lesson of the whole Dolch journey — long words are short words joined up.
2. TODAY is TO + DAY. Find it. Then cover each half. TO from Pre-Primer Set 3. DAY a familiar word. Same trick as TOGETHER, applied to a shorter compound. Big words made of small words: the principle that runs through every level of every list.
3. SIX, SEVEN and TEN are the closing numbers. Find all three. Then list every number word your child has met in the Dolch lists: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, TEN. (NINE is the small gap — not in the Dolch lists, oddly, but children meet it elsewhere.) The foundation of math vocabulary, learned through reading.
4. SHALL doubles its L. Find it. Then list other -ALL words: ALL, BALL, CALL, FALL, TALL, SMALL (also in this grid!), WALL. The doubled-L ending is a closed family. Recognizing it makes seven words readable, not just one.
5. TRY uses Y as a vowel. Find it. Then list the Y-as-I family: MY, BY, CRY, FLY, DRY, WHY, SKY, TRY. Eight words, one secret-vowel Y, all rhyming. Same family met as far back as Grade 1 Set 1.

Completing the whole Dolch list

As a closing-the-list starter. Write all the number words children have met across the five Dolch levels on the board: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, TEN. Then the day words: TODAY, TOMORROW (in TOMORROW only by implication — not in the Dolch list), MORNING, NIGHT. Then the family words: HER, HIM, HIS, ME, MYSELF, OUR, YOURSELF, THEY. The closing visible inventory: Dolch is not an arbitrary list, it is the structural vocabulary of everything a child reads.

As a personal “stubborn five” final list in pairs. Pairs go back through every Dolch set they have done (C01-C16, sixteen puzzles, 220 words) and pick the five words from the entire list they still occasionally slip on. The closing stubborn-five list goes in their notebook for one last round of focused review. Self-assessment honest enough to identify what’s still wobbly is the deepest practice there is.

One-to-one at home. For homeschooling families, this is the closing milestone of the entire Dolch list — five levels, 220 words, the structural skeleton of fluent reading. To mark it, sit with your child and read every Dolch word from C01 to C16 aloud, ticking each one they know on sight. Whatever the final tally, the achievement is the journey — sixteen puzzles, hundreds of words, the entire Dolch curriculum complete. A celebration is in order. Cake, biscuits, the works. Your child has reached the end of one of the most useful word lists in English-language education, and they have done it word by word.

What comes next

• Short-a CVC word search — back to the beginning of Core Phonics for revision or extension
• UK Year 1 Common Exception Words — the British equivalent of the Dolch list, met systematically
• All spelling word searches — the full collection across phonics, sight words and statutory lists

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