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Free printable PDF · Dolch second grade · ages 7–8
Sight Word “buy” Worksheet – Printable Reading Practice
“Buy” means to pay money for something: buy milk, buy a ticket. It sounds exactly like by and bye.
Quick game – Pretend shop
Set up a shop with toys and price tags. Your child is the customer and says “I want to buy…” for each item. Use real or toy coins to pay. See our money worksheet for counting coins.
A simple way to teach “buy”
Buy is a tricky spelling: the u is silent and the uy says “eye”. Write by, bye and buy together and draw a picture for each: a wave for bye, money for buy. Then play shop: your child reads the buy card each time they pay for a pretend item.
Read these together
- Let’s buy some apples.
- I want to buy a kite.
- We buy bread at the shop.
- What did you buy?
Keep going
Next up: “by” and “use” – by sounds the same, and use is another everyday action word.
“buy”: number 8 of 46, Dolch second grade list, typical ages 7–8. Review the first grade words first if it feels hard.
Four steps on one page
Trace the big “buy”, write it on the line, circle it but skip by, bye, boy, bay and busy, then trace and read “Let’s buy some apples.”.
Print one per child, or slip it in a plastic sleeve and reuse it with a dry-wipe pen.
FAQ: “buy”
How can children remember buy, by and bye?
Link each one to a meaning: buy has a u like “use money”, bye is a wave, and by means next to.
Why is buy on the sight word list?
Its spelling is unusual and cannot be sounded out, but it is a common word in stories and everyday life.
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