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Free sight word flash cards to print

Pick a Dolch list and get a PDF of flash cards, one word to a card, drawn large in the same school print letters as the tracing sheets. Print 3" × 5" cards four to a sheet and cut along the dashed lines, or print straight onto index cards one at a time. Tick a box and each card also gets the word in dots, on writing lines, to trace. It's free, with no sign-up, and it's made in your browser.

Four 3" × 5" cards fit a sheet turned sideways. For index cards, pick one card a page and feed them one at a time.

What's on each card

The word, as big as the longest word in the set allows, so every card in the set is the same size of letter. The small grey name in the corner says which list it's from. With "Add a copy to trace" ticked, the word goes in the top half and the bottom half has the four writing lines (a solid top line, a dashed midline, a solid baseline and a dotted line for tails) with the word in dots, the same as on the sight word tracing workbook pages.

Printing them the right size

Print at 100% (in the print box it's often called "Actual size"), not "Fit to page", or the printer shrinks the sheet and the cards come out small. On a US Letter sheet the four 3" × 5" cards take up 10" × 6" in the middle, and each dashed line runs straight across the sheet, so a paper trimmer cuts them apart in four strokes. Card stock holds up better than plain paper.

The two free lists

Pre-primer, 40 words, 10 sheets: a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you.

Primer, 52 words, 13 sheets: all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good, have, he, into, like, must, new, no, now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, well, went, what, white, who, will, with, yes.

"I" stays a capital; every other word is lowercase, as it appears on Dolch's lists.

Your own words

With the $19 Trace Press licence you can type any words: a spelling list, your class's word wall, the children's names. It holds up to 240 words of up to 12 letters, and the cards come with no footer line. It's the same licence that makes the A–Z tracing workbook ready to sell on Amazon KDP, and it's for one teacher. Name tracing for a whole class is on the name tracing worksheet page.