Fry Sight Words List
Fry Word Lists
All the Fry sight word lists, divided into groups of 100, also available as printable PDFs. More
Fry Sight Word Lessons
Five techniques for teaching Fry sight words. Learn proven ways to introduce words, reinforce learning, and correct mistakes. More
Fry Flash Cards
Print a set of Fry sight word flash cards, or use our generator to create your own custom cards. More
Fry Sight Word Games
Print cards and game boards for 18 Fry sight word games. A fun way to reinforce sight words lessons! MoreThe Fry Sight Words list is a more modern list of words than the Dolch list, and was extended to capture the most common 1,000 words. Dr. Edward Fry developed this expanded list in the 1950s (and updated it in 1980), based on the most common words to appear in reading materials used in Grades 3-9. Learning all 1,000 words in the Fry list would equip a child to read about 90% of the words in a typical book, newspaper, or website.
The Fry words are listed by the frequency with which they occur and are often broken down into groups of 100. So the first 100 Fry words are the 100 most frequently occurring words in the English language.Fry Word Lists
- 1st 100 Fry Sight Words (#1-100) a, about, all, am, an, and, are, as, at, be, been, but, by, called, can, come, could, day, did, do, down, each, find, first, for, from, get, go, had, has, have, he, her, him, his, how, I, if, in, into, is, it, its, like, long, look, made, make, many, may, more, my, no, not, now, number, of, on, one, or, other, out, part, people, said, see, she, so, some, than, that, the, their, them, then, there, these, they, this, time, to, two, up, use, was, water, way, we, were, what, when, which, who, will, with, words, would, write, you, your
- 2nd 100 Fry Sight Words (#101-200) after, again, air, also, America, animal, another, answer, any, around, ask, away, back, because, before, big, boy, came, change, different, does, end, even, follow, form, found, give, good, great, hand, help, here, home, house, just, kind, know, land, large, learn, letter, line, little, live, man, me, means, men, most, mother, move, much, must, name, need, new, off, old, only, our, over, page, picture, place, play, point, put, read, right, same, say, sentence, set, should, show, small, sound, spell, still, study, such, take, tell, things, think, three, through, too, try, turn, us, very, want, well, went, where, why, work, world, years
- 3rd 100 Fry Sight Words (#201-300) above, add, almost, along, always, began, begin, being, below, between, book, both, car, carry, children, city, close, country, cut, don’t, earth, eat, enough, every, example, eyes, face, family, far, father, feet, few, food, four, girl, got, group, grow, hard, head, hear, high, idea, important, Indian, it’s, keep, last, late, leave, left, let, life, light, list, might, mile, miss, mountains, near, never, next, night, often, once, open, own, paper, plant, real, river, run, saw, school, sea, second, seem, side, something, sometimes, song, soon, start, state, stop, story, talk, those, thought, together, took, tree, under, until, walk, watch, while, white, without, young
- 4th 100 Fry Sight Words (#301-400) across, against, area, become, best, better, birds, black, body, certain, cold, color, complete, covered, cried, didn’t, dog, door, draw, during, early, easy, ever, fall, farm, fast, field, figure, fire, fish, five, friends, ground, happened, heard, himself, hold, horse, hours, however, hundred, I’ll, king, knew, listen, low, map, mark, measure, money, morning, music, north, notice, numeral, order, passed, pattern, piece, plan, problem, products, pulled, questions, reached, red, remember, rock, room, seen, several, ship, short, since, sing, slowly, south, space, stand, step, sun, sure, table, today, told, top, toward, town, travel, true, unit, upon, usually, voice, vowel, war, waves, whole, wind, wood
- 5th 100 Fry Sight Words (#401-500) able, ago, among, ball, base, became, behind, boat, box, bread, bring, brought, building, built, cannot, carefully, check, circle, class, clear, common, contain, correct, course, dark, decided, deep, done, dry, English, equation, explain, fact, feel, filled, finally, fine, fly, force, front, full, game, gave, government, green, half, heat, heavy, hot, inches, include, inside, island, known, language, less, machine, material, minutes, note, nothing, noun, object, ocean, oh, pair, person, plane, power, produce, quickly, ran, rest, road, round, rule, scientists, shape, shown, six, size, special, stars, stay, stood, street, strong, surface, system, ten, though, thousands, understand, verb, wait, warm, week, wheels, yes, yet
- 6th 100 Fry Sight Words (#501-600) anything, arms, beautiful, believe, beside, bill, blue, brother, can’t, cause, cells, center, clothes, dance, describe, developed, difference, direction, discovered, distance, divided, drive, drop, edge, eggs, energy, Europe, exercise, farmers, felt, finished, flowers, forest, general, gone, grass, happy, heart, held, instruments, interest, job, kept, lay, legs, length, love, main, matter, meet, members, million, mind, months, moon, paint, paragraph, past, perhaps, picked, present, probably, race, rain, raised, ready, reason, record, region, represent, return, root, sat, shall, sign, simple, site, sky, soft, square, store, subject, suddenly, sum, summer, syllables, teacher, test, third, train, wall, weather, west, whether, wide, wild, window, winter, wish, written
- 7th 100 Fry Sight Words (#601-700) act, Africa, age, already, although, amount, angle, appear, baby, bear, beat, bed, bottom, bright, broken, build, buy, care, case, cat, century, consonant, copy, couldn’t, count, cross, dictionary, died, dress, either, everyone, everything, exactly, factors, fight, fingers, floor, fraction, free, French, gold, hair, hill, hole, hope, ice, instead, iron, jumped, killed, lake, laughed, lead, let’s, lot, melody, metal, method, middle, milk, moment, nation, natural, outside, per, phrase, poor, possible, pounds, pushed, quiet, quite, remain, result, ride, rolled, sail, scale, section, sleep, smiled, snow, soil, solve, someone, son, speak, speed, spring, stone, surprise, tall, temperature, themselves, tiny, trip, type, village, within, wonder
- 8th 100 Fry Sight Words (#701-800) alone, art, bad, bank, bit, break, brown, burning, business, captain, catch, caught, cents, child, choose, clean, climbed, cloud, coast, continued, control, cool, cost, decimal, desert, design, direct, drawing, ears, east, else, engine, England, equal, experiment, express, feeling, fell, flow, foot, garden, gas, glass, God, grew, history, human, hunting, increase, information, itself, joined, key, lady, law, least, lost, maybe, mouth, party, pay, period, plains, please, practice, president, received, report, ring, rise, row, save, seeds, sent, separate, serve, shouted, single, skin, statement, stick, straight, strange, students, suppose, symbols, team, touch, trouble, uncle, valley, visit, wear, whose, wire, woman, wrote, yard, you’re, yourself
- 9th 100 Fry Sight Words (#801-900) addition, army, bell, belong, block, blood, blow, board, bones, branches, cattle, chief, compare, compound, consider, cook, corner, crops, crowd, current, doctor, dollars, eight, electric, elements, enjoy, entered, except, exciting, expect, famous, fit, flat, fruit, fun, guess, hat, hit, indicate, industry, insects, interesting, Japanese, lie, lifted, loud, major, mall, meat, mine, modern, movement, necessary, observe, park, particular, planets, poem, pole, position, process, property, provide, rather, rhythm, rich, safe, sand, science, sell, send, sense, seven, sharp, shoulder, sight, silent, soldiers, spot, spread, stream, string, suggested, supply, swim, terms, thick, thin, thus, tied, tone, trade, tube, value, wash, wasn’t, weight, wife, wings, won’t
- 10th 100 Fry Sight Words (#901-1000) action, actually, adjective, afraid, agreed, ahead, allow, apple, arrived, born, bought, British, capital, chance, chart, church, column, company, conditions, corn, cotton, cows, create, dead, deal, death, details, determine, difficult, division, doesn’t, effect, entire, especially, evening, experience, factories, fair, fear, fig, forward, France, fresh, Greek, gun, hoe, huge, isn’t, led, level, located, march, match, molecules, northern, nose, office, opposite, oxygen, plural, prepared, pretty, printed, radio, repeated, rope, rose, score, seat, settled, shoes, shop, similar, sir, sister, smell, solution, southern, steel, stretched, substances, suffix, sugar, tools, total, track, triangle, truck, underline, various, view, Washington, we’ll, western, win, women, workers, wouldn’t, wrong, yellow
- All Fry Sight Words by group
- All Fry Sight Words in order of frequency
- All Fry Sight Words in alphabetical order
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41 Responses to “Fry Sight Words List”
Margaret Landry
I am volunteering with children whose primary language at home is not English. We are using the sight words but also would like to work with helping them make sentences with these words. Do you have any handouts which would help? Thank you, Margaret
Danielle
Hi Margaret,
Teachers pay Teachers have tons of free resources. 🙂
Danielle
Maribel
hi Margaret, thank you for this… i’m from Philippines and I volunteer to tutor an elementary pupils who can’t read…. this will help me.. thank you..
medhanie gebeyehu
I am very grateful to Dr. Fry for his highly regarded research and immensely important teaching and learning techniques. I found the groupings enormously helpful.
Danielle Edward
I am getting better at reading by using the Fry and Dolch word lists. Thank you so much! Hugs, Danielle/GMA
Dana R. Casey
Can you provide any links or titles of scholarly studies that I can use with admin to support this as a proven and effective teaching practice?
ADMIN – Hi Dana,
Take a look at the Research Bibliography section of our Sight Words Introduction page. We have listed several books and articles that have informed the development of our sight words teaching strategies.
Pioria Asito
Thank you so much for these resources. My 10 yr. old twins (Jalen and Jaden) are now able to recognize simple words and read them. With continuing practices every evening, I hope to introduce them to more words. Again, thank you!!
Abdo Muhammad
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I really like it .
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Clinton
i like this move. It teaches a lot.
Yoda
This is AWESOME!!!! Thank you for so much resources!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m a student from China and because of this, i can go to America and study!!!!!
again… THANK YOU!!!!!
Yoda
This a wonderful resource. Thank you!
Annie
Thanks a bunch. I pull it up on my smart board and read with my class daily.
Pamela Green
What does it mean if your first grader knows all 1000 fry words?
ADMIN – Hi Pamela,
Knowing all 1,000 fry sight words would be very unusual for a first grader! It could indicate a gift in verbal intelligence.
PJ Karpstein
My 1st grader knows the first 1000 words. Where do I go from here?
kathy
Can you break these down by grade level for me? End of K, how many should they know? End of 1st, end of 2nd, and so on? This is for for K – 5 alignment purposes. Thank you.
Michelle Johnson
I am going to start using these games to help my child read better.
Joanna b.
I am a retired teacher, I do Sub for a few schools in my District. I used these list in a PowerPoint, set on a timer. My students like to see who could learn the most words. So they could go onto the next 100 words. I had EEL students in my room each year.
I also had other students help the EEL students. They became Peer Teachers, they loved the idea they could teach others.
Now I’m beginning to utilize for my 2 yr old grandson, a few minutes each day.
blanca flor velasco baisa
Thank you madam. This is what I need to tutor my grade 1 son. I’m from Philippines.
Heena
Thanks a ton. I am sure this will be helpful for my students.
TTerry
What grade level is each group on?
Charlton
This question is for everyone. Is there another series of site words for third graders? I am looking for the next 1000 most frequently used words for a third grader. Thanks for any suggestions.
Charlton
samuel
Came for the list. Stayed for all the sight words printables. This is too cool.
Barbara Bush
THANKS!! 😀
Namraton
These are the perfect materials for improving reading. They are research back, easy, and fun. Thank you for making these.
Tiffany
Hello,
Does the list that says 1st imply those are the ones to master in 1st grade? Or am I misinterpreting this list. If this is true, what is expected to be mastered in Kindergarten?
Thank you,
Tiffany
JENNARAE RAMONEDA PEPITO
CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO FIND THE SIGHT WORDS FOR GRADE 3?
charles
Are you familiar with synthetic phonics?
Christi
Do you have a sight words list organized by level of difficulty?
MathMom
My kids have improved on their reading because of these words. We play so many games with these words now.
Sylvia Canner
What list is after the 10th 100 Fry words?
Cory Baker
My first grader was a kindergartener at the start of the school year and got moved up to 1st grade – he has finished all 1000 sight words and I was wondering where or if there are another 1000?
Megan
On the first grade list (1st 100 Fry words), there are two mistakes: “oil” and “sit” should be “am” and “its”.
sapphire
she is right
ADMIN – Hi, Sapphire. Yes, Megan was right (thanks again for catching that)! Please refer to our updated PDF file here . We’ve replaced oil and sit with am and its. Cheers.
sapphire
I am going to say that is app is good for kids that need help, and there are more apps that can help kids. This app is one. Thank you to everyone that is posting things for kids. And kids, you are doing good, because some kids don’t even have a apps like this. And kids, it might be hard to learn. It’s okay because you are not alone. Thank you to all the teachers here. I am a kid, so I know it’s sometimes hard. Okay, thank you.
ADMIN – We are happy to help you. Thanks for sharing!
Bella
Don’t forget to read and ask a question. For example, why are some Fry words mixed with different words? Some kids that like the old words are getting new words, and I am a kid and I know both versions. Okay, thank you everyone, and do you what you want and help the world.
Sarah
Is “am” suppose to be in 1st and 5th lists?
ADMIN – Hi Sarah, Thank you for catching and pointing that out! We’ve replaced “am” on this list as well as on the PDF file with “bread”, the correct word. We’ll also check on any affected flash cards soon and do the necessary updates as well. Cheers.
Sumam Jospeh
This is such a lovely collection. Neatly presented. Thank you.
Melissa
Thanks this is the best.
Cathy
Thanks for sharing. Godbless.
Alasya
Thank you so much for the help. I didn’t know there were 1,000 fry sight words! I have a little sister in 1st grade, who, is learning how to read and write. This was very helpful. I’m also a kid, who, is in 5th grade, that is helping my little sister in reading and writing, and this will really help her in reading and writing.
again… Thanks for the help. : )
Z Tong
Thank you so much for this resource. It’s very useful for my kids transitioning to an English learning environment.