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Sight Word List :
Fry's 1000 Instant Words (1-300)

The Fry Sight Word 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.

Clearly, students need to be able to read and spell these 300 hundred words easily to be successful in the early grades. Use the printable lists for writing and spelling practice at home and in the classroom. You'll find a link for each remaining Fry sight word list at the bottom of the page.

I've also posted the popular Dolch Sight Word lists.

The First Hundred Words (Words 1-100)
Printable list

List 1	List 2	List 3	List 4
the	or	will	number
of	one	up	no
and	had	other	way
a	by	about	could
to	words	out	people
in	but	many	my
is	not	then	than
you	what	them	first
that	all	these	water
it	were	so	been
he	we	some	called
was	when	her	who
for	your	would	am
on	can	make	its
are	said	like	now
as	there	him	find
with	use	into	long
his	an	time	down
they	each	has	day
I	which	look	did
at	she	two	get
be	do	more	come
this	how	write	made
have	their	go	may
from	if	see	part

I have printable flash cards for the first 100 words.

Second Hundred (Words 101 - 200) - Printable List

List 1	List 2	List 3	List 4
over	say	set	try
new	great	put	kind
sound	where	end	hand
take	help	does	picture
only	through	another	again
little	much	well	change
work	before	large	off
know	line	must	play
place	right	big	spell
years	too	even	air
live	means	such	away
me	old	because	animal
back	any	turn	house
give	same	here	point
most	tell	why	page
very	boy	ask	letter
after	follow	went	mother
things	came	men	answer
our	want	read	found
just	show	need	study
name	also	land	still
good	around	different	learn
sentence	form	home	should
man	three	us	America
think	small	move	world

Third Hundred (Words 201 - 300) - Printable List

List 1	List 2	List 3	List 4
high	saw	important	miss
every	left	until	idea
near	don't	children	enough
add	few	side	eat
food	while	feet	face
between	along	car	watch
own	might	mile	far
below	close	night	Indian
country	something	walk	real
plant	seem	white	almost
last	next	sea	let
school	hard	began	above
father	open	grow	girl
keep	example	took	sometimes
tree	begin	river	mountains
never	life	four	cut
start	always	carry	young
city	those	state	talk
earth	both	once	soon
eyes	paper	book	list
light	together	hear	song
thought	got	stop	being
head	group	without	leave
under	often	second	family
story	run	late	it's

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Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Hundred Words

Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Hundred Words

Tips for Using Sight Word Lists

Now that you know all these sight words, it's great to actually use them with your child or students! I've written several sight word games to give kids fun practice in recognizing these all-important words at an early age. Here are just two examples:

Love the Letters! - Three fun activities for partners using any sight words. Children work in pairs to use alphabet blocks to spell sight words, following one of several interesting variations. Bore no more!

Tic-Tac-Toe Game - A simple format that kids can use over and over with any sight words. Students write sight words into a blank tic-tac-toe board. Then the fun begins!

Or how about a classroom game of Sight Word Bingo?! What better way to have FUN recognizing words? This is a great educational game from other site, www.word-game-world.com. While you're there, check out some of my other word games and puzzles!

Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.

Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.

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