Dolch list · nouns
The 95 Dolch Nouns
The everyday things children read about: animals, family, home and the outdoors.
The 95 nouns
apple · baby · back · ball · bear · bed · bell · bird · birthday · boat · box · boy · bread · brother · cake · car · cat · chair · chicken · children · Christmas · coat · corn · cow · day · dog · doll · door · duck · egg · eye · farm · farmer · father · feet · fire · fish · floor · flower · game · garden · girl · goodbye · grass · ground · hand · head · hill · home · horse · house · kitty · leg · letter · man · men · milk · money · morning · mother · name · nest · night · paper · party · picture · pig · rabbit · rain · ring · robin · Santa Claus · school · seed · sheep · shoe · sister · snow · song · squirrel · stick · street · sun · table · thing · time · top · toy · tree · watch · water · way · wind · window · wood
Why the nouns are a separate list
Dolch's 220 service words leave out nouns on purpose, because nouns change with what a book is about. He published these 95 as a companion list of common nouns from children's books.
They're often the easiest to teach, because a child can picture them. Pair each word with the real thing: stick a card on the door, the chair and the window.
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Questions
How many Dolch nouns are there?
95.
When should children learn them?
Alongside the service words, from about the primer level. Unlike the service words, they aren't split by grade.
An app is on the way
We're building a Wordburrow app for iPhone. The plan is everything you can play here, plus offline play and a parent view of the words that have stuck. It isn't out yet. The whole game is free here in the meantime.
Coming soon on theApp Store