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Flashcards and Word Games For Fry’s 10th 100 Instant Words

E.L. Lee

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This book is written specifically based on the Fry’s 10th 100 Instant Words list. The aim is to help the young learner to master the words in a fun and joyful way.

First of all, have a look at all the words. For easy reading and memorization they are put in alphabetical order.

Then practice with the flashcards.

Lastly, play the games. The words are scrambled, unscramble them as fast as you can.
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Dr. Edward B. Fry’s Instant Words is also known as Fry’s Instant Words List or Fry Words. This is a list of the most common English words that are ranked according to the frequency of usage in printed material.

Developed by Edward B. Fry, Ph.D., it was an expansion on the Dolch Word List. Dr. Fry together with Jacqueline E. Kress published the list in a book called “Fry 1000 Instant Words” in 1996.

Briefly, Dolch Word List (a.k.a Dolch’ Sight Words or Dolch List) is a list of frequency word by Edward William Dolch, Ph.D. Published in 1948 in the book called “Problem In Reading”, it was based on the printed material of the era of 1930’s and 1940’s.

Dolch’s List consists of 220 most commonly used words in English language together with another set of 95 most common nouns. Known as sight words, these are words to be recognized by sight. Mastering them is very important to the reading and learning abilities of a child.

Children who had learned the Dolch’s words should continue with the Fry’s words. Actually most of the words from Dolch are included in the Fry’s.

The Fry List is an updated list. It listed the 1000 most commonly used words of much more present English language. Fry and Kress reported

1. The first 25 Fry words made up about one third of all the printed material
2. The first 100 Fry words made up about half of the words in printed material
3. The first 300 Fry words made up practically two thirds of all the printed material.

List of Fry’s Tenth 100 Words
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901. company
902. radio
903. we’ll
904. action
905. capital
906. factories
907. settled
908. yellow
909. isn’t
910. southern
911. truck
912. fair
913. printed
914. wouldn’t
915. ahead
916. chance
917. born
918. level
919. triangle
920. molecules
921. France
922. repeated
923. column
924. western
925. church
926. sister
927. oxygen
928. plural
929. various
930. agreed
931. opposite
932. wrong
933. chart
934. prepared
935. pretty
936. solution
937. fresh
938. shop
939. suffix
940. especially
941. shoes
942. actually
943. nose
944. afraid
945. dead
946. sugar
947. adjective
948. fig
949. office
950. huge
951. gun
952. similar
953. death
954. score
955. forward
956. stretched
957. experience
958. rose
959. allow
960. fear
961. workers
962. Washington
963. Greek
964. women
965. bought
966. led
967. march
968. northern
969. create
970. British
971. difficult
972. match
973. win
974. doesn’t
975. steel
976. total
977. deal
978. determine
979. evening
980. nor
981. rope
982. cotton
983. apple
984. details
985. entire
986. corn
987. substances
988. smell
989. tools
990. conditions
991. cows
992. track
993. arrived
994. located
995. sir
996. seat
997. division
998. effect
999. underline
1000. view

155 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 4, 2013