Free Sight Words
Fry's 1000 Instant Words (301-600)
The free sight words here come from Fry's List of 1000 Instant words. His list is made up of the most frequently used words in children's books, novels, articles and textbooks. The words are ranked in order of frequency.
The list was compiled by Dr. Edward B. Fry in 1996. His research found that just 25 words make up approximately 1/3 of all published text. He noted that 100 words make up about 1/2, and 300 words make up 65% of all written material.
Free Sight Words
Here are words 301 through 600 in the list. After readers have mastered the first 300 words, they should move quickly to learn these sets of words for continued language success.
You'll find links to the other free sight words, from Fry's list of words #601 to 1000, at the bottom of the page.
See the first 300 words here.
Fourth Hundred
Words (301-400) - Printable
List
| List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 |
| body | order | listen | farm |
| music | red | wind | pulled |
| color | door | rock | draw |
| stand | sure | space | voice |
| sun | become | covered | seen |
| questions | top | fast | cold |
| fish | ship | several | cried |
| area | across | hold | plan |
| mark | today | himself | notice |
| dog | during | toward | south |
| horse | short | five | sing |
| birds | better | step | war |
| problem | best | morning | ground |
| complete | however | passed | fall |
| room | low | vowel | king |
| knew | hours | true | town |
| since | black | hundred | I'll |
| ever | products | against | unit |
| piece | happened | pattern | figure |
| told | whole | numeral | certain |
| usually | measure | table | field |
| didn't | remember | north | travel |
| friends | early | slowly | wood |
| easy | waves | money | fire |
| heard | reached | map | upon |
Fifth Hundred
Words (401-500) - Printable
List
| List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 |
| done | decided | plane | filled |
| English | contain | system | heat |
| road | course | behind | full |
| half | surface | ran | hot |
| ten | produce | round | check |
| fly | building | boat | object |
| gave | ocean | game | am |
| box | class | force | rule |
| finally | note | brought | among |
| wait | nothing | understand | noun |
| correct | rest | warm | power |
| oh | carefully | common | cannot |
| quickly | scientists | bring | able |
| person | inside | explain | six |
| became | wheels | dry | size |
| shown | stay | though | dark |
| minutes | green | language | ball |
| strong | known | shape | material |
| verb | island | deep | special |
| stars | week | thousands | heavy |
| front | less | yes | fine |
| feel | machine | clear | pair |
| fact | base | equation | circle |
| inches | ago | yet | include |
| street | stood | government | built |
Sixth Hundred
Words (501-600) - Printable
List
| List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 |
| can't | picked | legs | beside |
| matter | simple | sat | gone |
| square | cells | main | sky |
| syllables | paint | winter | grass |
| perhaps | mind | wide | million |
| bill | love | written | west |
| felt | cause | length | lay |
| suddenly | rain | reason | weather |
| test | exercise | kept | root |
| direction | eggs | interest | instruments |
| center | train | arms | meet |
| farmers | blue | brother | third |
| ready | wish | race | months |
| anything | drop | present | paragraph |
| divided | developed | beautiful | raised |
| general | window | store | represent |
| energy | difference | job | soft |
| subject | distance | edge | whether |
| Europe | heart | past | clothes |
| moon | site | sign | flowers |
| region | sum | record | shall |
| return | summer | finished | teacher |
| believe | wall | discovered | held |
| dance | forest | wild | describe |
| members | probably | happy | drive |
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Sight Word Resources
We have a large assortment of sight words lists, games and activities. Here are links to a few of them:
- Dolch List of Service Words
- Dolch List of Nouns
- Sight Word Games and Activities
- More Free Sight Words - Lists and Flashcards
- The purpose and history of the Dolch words
- Fun ideas and worksheets to help your students practice these words
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