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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.

Why are these puzzles in lower case letters? Beginning readers and struggling readers benefit most from word recognition exercises using lower case letters because most writing is done with lower case letters. We should avoid puzzles which use only capital letters.

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.

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.

The following puzzles have all of the Dolch sight words.

Pre-primer Puzzle and Answers

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

Pre-primer Puzzle and Answers

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

Pre-primer Puzzle and Answers

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

Pre-primer Puzzle and Answers

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

Primer Puzzle and Answers

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

Primer Puzzle and Answers

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

Primer Puzzle and Answers

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

Primer Puzzle and Answers

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

Primer Puzzle and Answers

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

First Grade Puzzle and Answers

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

First Grade Puzzle and Answers

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

First Grade Puzzle and Answers

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

First Grade Puzzle and Answers

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

Second Grade Puzzle and Answers

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

Second Grade Puzzle and Answers

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

Second Grade Puzzle and Answers

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

Second Grade Puzzle and Answers

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

Third Grade Puzzle and Answers

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

Third Grade Puzzle and Answers

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

Third Grade Puzzle and Answers

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 of Dolch words)

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Excerpts from A Funny Dolch Word Book #1 (stories and puzzles using all of the pre-primer through first grade Dolch words)

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Excerpts from A Funny Dolch Sight Word Book #2 (stories, fables, and puzzles using all of the second grade Dolch words)

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Excerpts from A Funny Dolch Sight Word Book #3 (stories, fables, and puzzles using using all of the third grade Dolch words)

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Excerpts from A Funny Dolch Word Book #1 Un Libro Cómico #1 de la Palabra de Dolch (stories with pre-primer through first grade Dolch words in English and Spanish) 88

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