Kindergarten Word Search

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The words in this grid are sight words - the ones a child in kindergarten is asked to know on sight instead of sounding out. Come, they, there, have, people: short, extremely common, and mostly unwilling to follow the phonics rules. Free to print, free to play online.

Lists like this one go back to Edward Dolch, a reading professor who in 1936 went through the children's books of his day and pulled out the words that turned up most often. A couple of hundred of them account for something between half and two thirds of the words on a page in an early reader. Learn those and the rest of the sentence becomes guessable.

The awkward ones are awkward for a reason. Come ought to rhyme with home. People carries an o that does nothing at all. Have breaks the silent-e rule the same child is being taught that month. For this handful, recognizing the shape is simply faster than decoding it, which is why they are drilled rather than sounded out.

Take the free PDF for a literacy center or a homework folder. Online, every child who opens it gets a different board.

Free Kindergarten Word Search Online Game

Play the Kindergarten word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.

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Kindergarten Word Search Printable Puzzles

Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Kindergarten word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.

Puzzle Vocabulary Words

Below you can see all possible words that the topic Kindergarten has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.

• And
• Are
• Big
• Book
• Box
• Boy
• But
• Come
• Down
• Each
• Egg
• Find
• First
• For
• From
• Fun
• Girl
• Have
• Into
• Last
• Like
• Long
• Look
• Made
• Make
• More
• Not
• Now
• One
• Out
• Part
• Past
• People
• Pig
• Said
• She
• Sit
• Some
• Sun
• Than
• That
• Them
• Then
• There
• They
• This
• Time