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Dolch Word Search Puzzles

Copyright 2000 Betsy B. Lee,
Learning Abilities Books http://www.learningbooks.net
These puzzles may be reproduced for classroom use only. All other rights are reserved.

Many children have difficulty remembering to read from left to right and from top to bottom. Word search puzzles which do not follow this pattern can mislead beginning readers and children who tend to write and read words backward. If your children need help remembering right and left, use the Right and Left Links lesson plan.

On this web site, words in the pre-primer and primer word searches are read only from left to right. Words in the first, second, and third grade word searches are read from left to right, or top to bottom, or diagonally from upper left to lower right.

On this web site, all word searches use lower case letters. Try to avoid puzzles which use only capital letters. Children benefit most from word recognition exercises using lower case letters because most writing is done with lower case letters.

One learning principle is to break information down into small chunks. It often helps to have children learn a few words well then move on to the next group of words. Each list (pre-primer, primer, etc.) is subdivided for the word search puzzles. Subdivisions do not represent order of difficulty. Use the same puzzles several times.

Pre-primer

and, big, can, for, in, is, it, me, one

Pre-primer

a, I, my, not, red, run, see, the, to, up, we

Pre-primer

blue, come, down, find, go, look, play, said, two, you

Pre-primer

away, funny, help, here, jump, little, make, three, where, yellow

Primer

all, am, are, ate, be, do, he, on, saw, say, so, she

Primer

but, did, eat, into, new, no, our, too, was, will, with, yes

Primer

at, came, now, out, ride, ran, soon, this, want, who

Primer

get, must, there, they, under, well, went, what, white

Primer

black, brown, four, good, have, like, please, pretty, that

First Grade

after, again, as, by, fly, of, over, round, some, take

First Grade

give, had, has, how, may, stop, thank, them, then, think

First Grade

any, ask, giving, him, just, let, live, open, walk, were

First Grade

an, could, every, from, her, his, know, old, once, put, when

Second Grade

always, around, because, been, does, fast, first, five, sing, sit, sleep

Second Grade

before, best, don't, found, gave, goes, green, pull, read, right, tell, their

Second Grade

both, buy, its, made, many, off, or, these, those, upon, very, would

Second Grade

call, cold, us, use, wash, which, why, wish, work, write, your

Third Grade

about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow

Third Grade

hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never

Third Grade

only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

Excerpts from Albert, the Apple Eating Appaloosa (Dolch horse stories and puzzles using different word endings)

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