Fry Sight Words
Fry's 1000 Instant Words (601-1000)
The Fry Sight Words on this page come from Dr. Edward B. 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. 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.
Fry Sight Words
melodyHere are words 601 through 1000 in the list. You'll find links to the other Fry sight words at the bottom of the page.
Seventh Hundred Words (601-700)
Printable
List
| List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 |
| cross | already | hair | rolled |
| speak | instead | age | bear |
| solve | phrase | amount | wonder |
| appear | soil | scale | smiled |
| metal | bed | pounds | angle |
| son | copy | although | fraction |
| either | free | per | Africa |
| ice | hope | broken | killed |
| sleep | spring | moment | melody |
| village | case | tiny | bottom |
| factors | laughed | possible | trip |
| result | nation | gold | hole |
| jumped | quite | milk | poor |
| snow | type | quiet | let's |
| ride | themselves | natural | fight |
| care | temperature | lot | surprise |
| floor | bright | stone | French |
| hill | lead | act | died |
| pushed | everyone | build | beat |
| baby | method | middle | exactly |
| buy | section | speed | remain |
| century | lake | count | dress |
| outside | iron | consonant | cat |
| everything | within | someone | couldn't |
| tall | dictionary | sail | fingers |
Eighth Hundred Words (701-800)
Printable
List
| List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 |
| row | president | yourself | caught |
| least | brown | control | fell |
| catch | trouble | practice | team |
| climbed | cool | report | God |
| wrote | cloud | straight | captain |
| shouted | lost | rise | direct |
| continued | sent | statement | ring |
| itself | symbols | stick | serve |
| else | wear | party | child |
| plains | bad | seeds | desert |
| gas | save | suppose | increase |
| England | experiment | woman | history |
| burning | engine | coast | cost |
| design | alone | bank | maybe |
| joined | drawing | period | business |
| foot | east | wire | separate |
| law | choose | pay | break |
| ears | single | clean | uncle |
| glass | touch | visit | hunting |
| you're | information | bit | flow |
| grew | express | whose | lady |
| skin | mouth | received | students |
| valley | yard | garden | human |
| cents | equal | please | art |
| key | decimal | strange | feeling |
See this helpful list of tips for Teaching Sight Words.
Ninth Hundred Words (801-900)
Printable
List
| List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 |
| supply | guess | thick | major |
| corner | silent | blood | observe |
| electric | trade | lie | tube |
| insects | rather | spot | necessary |
| crops | compare | bell | weight |
| tone | crowd | fun | meat |
| hit | poem | loud | lifted |
| sand | enjoy | consider | process |
| doctor | elements | suggested | army |
| provide | indicate | thin | hat |
| thus | except | position | property |
| won't | expect | entered | particular |
| cook | flat | fruit | swim |
| bones | seven | tied | terms |
| mall | interesting | rich | current |
| board | sense | dollars | park |
| modern | string | send | sell |
| compound | blow | sight | shoulder |
| mine | famous | chief | industry |
| wasn't | value | Japanese | wash |
| fit | wings | stream | block |
| addition | movement | planets | spread |
| belong | pole | rhythm | cattle |
| safe | exciting | eight | wife |
| soldiers | branches | science | sharp |
Tenth Hundred Words (901-1000)
Printable
List
| List 1 | List 2 | List 3 | List 4 |
| company | sister | gun | total |
| radio | oxygen | similar | deal |
| we'll | plural | death | determine |
| action | various | score | evening |
| capital | agreed | forward | hoe |
| factories | opposite | stretched | rope |
| settled | wrong | experience | cotton |
| yellow | chart | rose | apple |
| isn't | prepared | allow | details |
| southern | pretty | fear | entire |
| truck | solution | workers | corn |
| fair | fresh | Washington | substances |
| printed | shop | Greek | smell |
| wouldn't | suffix | women | tools |
| ahead | especially | bought | conditions |
| chance | shoes | led | cows |
| born | actually | march | track |
| level | nose | northern | arrived |
| triangle | afraid | create | located |
| molecules | dead | British | sir |
| France | sugar | difficult | seat |
| repeated | adjective | match | division |
| column | fig | win | effect |
| western | office | doesn't | underline |
| church | huge | steel | view |
More Fry Sight Words
Set 1 First, Second, Third Hundred
Fry Sight Words
Set 2 - Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Hundred Words
More Sight Word Resources
upWe have Dolch Sight Word Lists, too, including:
Dolch sight words list: Printable list of the Dolch "service" sight words, arranged by grade level. These are essential non-noun words that young readers need to recognize instantly and spell easily.
Dolch sight word nouns: An alphabetical list of the Dolch nouns. This is a great resource for making your own classroom games, word walls and worksheets. It's easy for kids to draw pictures of these words and use picture clues to help them read the words.
Please note that we have lots of sight word games and activities to help provide plenty of fun practice with each important sight words list.
What's Missing? - Try these games to build reading, spelling and memory skills!
Tic-Tac-Toe Game - A simple, fun format that kids can use over and over with any sight words.
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