Flashcards and Word Games For Fry’s 4th 100 Instant Words

by E.L. Lee

This book is written specifically based on the Fry’s 4th 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 Fourth 100 Words
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301. body
302. music
303. color
304. stand
305. sun
306. questions
307. fish
308. area
309. mark
310. dog
311. horse
312. birds
313. problem
314. complete
315. room
316. knew
317. since
318. ever
319. piece
320. told
321. usually
322. didn’t
323. friends
324. easy
325. heard
326. order
327. red
328. door
329. sure
330. become
331. top
332. ship
333. across
334. today
335. during
336. short
337. better
338. best
339. however
340. low
341. hours
342. black
343. products
344. happened
345. whole
346. measure
347. remember
348. early
349. waves
350. reached
351. listen
352. wind
353. rock
354. space
355. covered
356. fast
357. several
358. hold
359. himself
360. toward
361. five
362. step
363. morning
364. passed
365. vowel
366. true
367. hundred
368. against
369. pattern
370. numeral
371. table
372. north
373. slowly
374. money
375. map
376. busy
377. pulled
378. draw
379. voice
380. seen
381. cold
382. cried
383. plan
384. notice
385. south
386. sing
387. war
388. ground
389. fall
390. king
391. town
392. I’ll
393. unit
394. figure
395. certain
396. field
397. travel
398. wood
399. fire
400. upon

155 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 4, 2013