Fry Sight Word List – Words 1-1000 (Downloadable PDFs)

If you’ve landed here, you are likely looking for lists of the Fry sight words. Well, you’re in the right place. Below you’ll find all the Fry words broken into groups of 100 as well as PDF printables for your convenience. 

What Are Fry Sight Words, and How Many Fry Sight Words Are There?

Fry words are high-frequency words that account for up to 90% of words used in reading materials that target children. The words are compiled based upon the frequency they are used. The first 25 words, on their own, account for around 30% of words in children’s materials while the top 100 words account for half.

There are 1,000 Fry words broken into groups of 100. Since many of the words cannot be sounded out phonetically, memorizing these words is helpful in giving children a basis for reading and increasing their confidence. 

Fry Words Lists

The Fry sight words are broken up into groups of 100 and are typically mastered at different age/grade levels.

Fry Words 1-100

These are the most common words on the list and are essential to helping children have the foundation to learn. Typically, this list is started in kindergarten and is expected to be mastered by the end of first grade. The target ages here are 5-7 years old. Below are the first 100 words in the Fry list:

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	with	will	with	words	would	write	you	your

A basic way to make students familiar with sight words is by flashcard drill. Check out ours for this set here.

Fry Words 101-200

Building upon the previous list, the second set of words is generally mastered during the first and second-grade years. Students in these grade levels are 7-8 years old. Reading these words should be automatic and easy, enabling students to focus on only unknown words in a text. These are the second set of Fry words:

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

Looking for additional practice when it comes to learning your Fry’s second 100 sight words? You can view it here.

Fry Words 201-300

Students in the late second grade through third grade are better at decoding words but memorizing this next set gives additional confidence in reading. The age range for these grades is typically 8-9. Although these words have likely appeared in texts already, increased recognition will help with reading fluency now and in the future. The third 100 Fry words are:

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

Here’s another way to increase their familiarity with these words with our Fry’s Third 100 Sight Words Flashcards.

Fry Words 301-400

The fourth list of Fry words is typically learned in third and fourth grades and are often presented as “spelling words” or “vocabulary words”. Students in these grades are generally 9-10 years old. Here is the next list of Fry words:

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	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	war	whole	wind	wood

Help your students learn these sight words in no time through Fry’s Fourth 100 Sight Words Flashcards .

Fry Words 401-500

The remaining six lists of Fry words are typically presented in 4th-5th grade and have been encountered many times already. Children in these grades are 10-11 years old. Although they may not be “instant” words, children are becoming more familiar with these words in educational and recreational texts. Practice their familiarity more with the help of our Fry’s Fifth 100 Sight Words Flashcards too.

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

Fry Words 501-600

Here is the next set students should focus on. Again, these students are in the 4th and 5th grade and are around 10-11 years old. As these words become automatic, you will see a jump in fluency and comprehension of texts. Not struggling to read each individual word means students can retain more of the context of what they read. Check out Fry’s Sixth 100 Sight Words Flashcards for an extra nudge on this set.

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

Fry Words 601-700

As words get harder to both read and write, memorizing these lists can help students produce quality, grade-level work and read appropriate level texts with relative ease. Students are becoming increasingly proficient at reading by the end of fifth grade.

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

We’ve also compiled this list through flashcards that you may check out here.

Fry Words 701-800

Finding engaging ways of practicing and mastering the words on these lists will help keep students interested and eager to read for years to come. Reading is a skill that never goes out of style or becomes obsolete and students who can read easily are more likely to enjoy it and become lifelong readers. These words will come up more often in the fourth and fifth grades. Another way to check their mastery of Fry’s eighth 100 sight words can be done with our flashcards.

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

Fry Words 801-900

Even memorizing easy-to-decode words can benefit students because they don’t have to pause when reading to think about it. Instantly recognizing a word is key to fluency and comprehension. Students can begin undertaking more challenging texts as they continue to master these words in 4th and 5th grade.

addition	army	bell	belong	block
blood	blow	board	bone	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

Want to develop their reading ability? Be sure to check out our Fry’s Ninth 100 Sight Words Flashcards set.

Fry Words 901-1000

At this point, though they’ve likely memorized more than 1,000 words, they should feel confident reading most grade-level text and using these most common words in their writing as well. Students who struggle with the words on these lists often dislike reading and find it tedious and boring. These words should all be familiar through practice and through reading a variety of texts by the end of 5th grade. Find Fry’s Tenth 100 Sight Words Flashcards set here.

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

Conclusion 

Reading is a life-long skill and having the necessary tools to do it well will increase the ease and love of reading in children of all ages. By using these word lists at the appropriate developmental levels will ensure students can read grade-level texts easily. Thanks for stopping by!

If you want the full Fry Sight Word List PDF, here it is. Enjoy!