SpellChirp

95 words · ages 5–8

Dolch nouns: all 95 words

The 95 picture words that go with the sight words — the things in the pictures. Every word is below — copy them, print the page, or tap once to have SpellChirp hatch the lot with definitions, audio and syllables.
  1. apple
  2. baby
  3. back
  4. ball
  5. bear
  6. bed
  7. bell
  8. bird
  9. birthday
  10. boat
  11. box
  12. boy
  13. bread
  14. brother
  15. cake
  16. car
  17. cat
  18. chair
  19. chicken
  20. children
  21. Christmas
  22. coat
  23. corn
  24. cow
  25. day
  26. dog
  27. doll
  28. door
  29. duck
  30. egg
  31. eye
  32. farm
  33. farmer
  34. father
  35. feet
  36. fire
  37. fish
  38. floor
  39. flower
  40. game
  41. garden
  42. girl
  43. good-bye
  44. grass
  45. ground
  46. hand
  47. head
  48. hill
  49. home
  50. horse
  51. house
  52. kitty
  53. leg
  54. letter
  55. man
  56. men
  57. milk
  58. money
  59. morning
  60. mother
  61. name
  62. nest
  63. night
  64. paper
  65. party
  66. picture
  67. pig
  68. rabbit
  69. rain
  70. ring
  71. robin
  72. Santa Claus
  73. school
  74. seed
  75. sheep
  76. shoe
  77. sister
  78. snow
  79. song
  80. squirrel
  81. stick
  82. street
  83. sun
  84. table
  85. thing
  86. time
  87. top
  88. toy
  89. tree
  90. watch
  91. water
  92. way
  93. wind
  94. window
  95. wood

Practise these 95 words, free

One tap puts the whole list in the nest. Each word arrives with a definition a child can read, audio and its syllables — then SpellChirp reads them out, marks the spelling and brings back the ones that went wrong. No account needed to start, and no advertising on either plan.

Add all 95 wordsPrint a practice sheet

Where this list comes from

Compiled by Edward William Dolch in 1936 from the words most common in children's books. Long out of copyright and in the public domain.

The 220 words that make up around half of everything a child reads, plus 95 picture nouns. Most cannot be sounded out — they have to be known on sight, which is why they turn up in spelling homework year after year.

How to practise a list this long

Not all at once. Five to ten words a week is the pace that sticks; a list of a hundred is a term’s work, not a weekend’s, and a child who meets ten words five times learns more than one who meets fifty once.

Sight words are the ones that cannot be sounded out, so sounding them out is the wrong tool. Look at the shape of the whole word, say it, cover it, write it — then check the letters against the original rather than the sound.

Count a word as learned when it has been spelled correctly on three separate days. That is the rule SpellChirp uses, and it is roughly where a word stops needing to be looked up.