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Free printable PDF · Dolch second grade · ages 7–8
Sight Word “before” Worksheet – Trace, Write and Find
“Before” means earlier than something else: wash your hands before lunch, brush your teeth before bed. It is the partner of after.
Game: Before or after?
Say two events: brushing teeth and going to bed. Your child says which comes before. Make it trickier with numbers and letters: does b come before c?
How to teach “before”
Before has two parts: be and fore, which sounds like four. Clap the beats, then link it to after with a simple routine. What do we do before bed? Before going out? Make a before-and-after drawing: a messy room before tidying and a neat room after.
Sentences with “before”
- Wash before lunch.
- Look before you cross.
- I read before bed.
- Five comes before six.
Practise next
Try “after” and “first” next: after is its opposite, and first is about order too.
“before” is word 5 of 46 on the Dolch second grade list, usually met around ages 7–8 after the first grade words.
What’s on the “before” worksheet
Read and trace “before”, write it alone, circle it among look-alikes such as after, bore, fore, befit and forest, then trace “Look before you cross.”.
Questions about “before”
What is the opposite of before?
After. Teaching them together helps children talk about the order of events.
Why does before end in e?
The e is part of the old spelling and makes the second syllable sound like four.
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