Flashcards and Word Games For Fry’s 7th 100 Instant Words

by E.L. Lee

This book is written specifically based on the Fry’s 7th 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 Seventh 100 Words
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601. cross
602. speak
603. solve
604. appear
605. metal
606. son
607. either
608. ice
609. sleep
610. village
611. factors
612. result
613. jumped
614. snow
615. ride
616. care
617. floor
618. hill
619. pushed
620. baby
621. buy
622. century
623. outside
624. everything
625. tall
626. already
627. instead
628. phrase
629. soil
630. bed
631. copy
632. free
633. hope
634. spring
635. case
636. laughed
637. nation
638. quite
639. type
640. themselves
641. temperature
642. bright
643. lead
644. everyone
645. method
646. section
647. lake
648. consonant
649. within
650. dictionary
651. hair
652. age
653. amount
654. scale
655. pounds
656. although
657. per
658. broken
659. moment
660. tiny
661. possible
662. gold
663. milk
664. quiet
665. natural
666. lot
667. stone
668. act
669. build
670. middle
671. speed
672. count
673. cat
674. someone
675. sail
676. rolled
677. bear
678. wonder
679. smiled
680. angle
681. fraction
682. Africa
683. killed
684. melody
685. bottom
686. trip
687. hole
688. poor
689. let’s
690. fight
691. surprise
692. French
693. died
694. beat
695. exactly
696. remain
697. dress
698. iron
699. couldn’t
700. fingers

155 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 4, 2013