Flashcards and Word Games For Fry’s 3rd 100 Instant Words

by E.L. Lee

This book is written specifically based on the Fry’s 3rd 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 Third 100 Words
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201. high
202. every
203. near
204. add
205. food
206. between
207. own
208. below
209. country
210. plants
211. last
212. school
213. father
214. keep
215. trees
216. never
217. started
218. city
219. earth
220. eyes
221. light
222. thought
223. head
224. under
225. story
226. saw
227. left
228. don’t
229. few
230. while
231. along
232. might
233. close
234. something
235. seemed
236. next
237. hard
238. open
239. example
240. beginning
241. life
242. always
243. those
244. both
245. paper
246. together
247. got
248. group
249. often
250. run
251. important
252. until
253. children
254. side
255. feet
256. car
257. miles
258. night
259. walked
260. white
261. sea
262. began
263. grow
264. took
265. river
266. four
267. carry
268. state
269. once
270. book
271. hear
272. stop
273. without
274. second
275. later
276. miss
277. idea
278. enough
279. eat
280. face
281. watch
282. far
283. Indians
284. really
285. almost
286. let
287. above
288. girl
289. sometimes
290. mountains
291. cut
292. young
293. talk
294. soon
295. list
296. song
297. being
298. leave
299. family
300. it’s

155 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 4, 2013