Flashcards and Word Games For Fry’s 6th 100 Instant Words

by E.L. Lee

This book is written specifically based on the Fry’s 6th 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
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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 Sixth 100 Words
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501. can’t
502. matter
503. square
504. syllables
505. perhaps
506. bill
507. felt
508. suddenly
509. test
510. direction
511. center
512. farmers
513. ready
514. anything
515. divided
516. general
517. energy
518. subject
519. Europe
520. moon
521. region
522. return
523. believe
524. dance
525. members
526. picked
527. simple
528. cells
529. paint
530. mind
531. love
532. cause
533. rain
534. exercise
535. eggs
536. train
537. blue
538. wish
539. drop
540. developed
541. window
542. difference
543. distant
544. heart
545. sit
546. sum
547. summer
548. wall
549. forest
550. probably
551. legs
552. sat
553. main
554. winter
555. wide
556. written
557. length
558. reason
559. kept
560. interest
561. arms
562. brother
563. race
564. present
565. beautiful
566. store
567. job
568. edge
569. past
570. sign
571. record
572. finished
573. discovered
574. wild
575. happy
576. beside
577. gone
578. sky
579. glass
580. million
581. west
582. lay
583. weather
584. root
585. instruments
586. meet
587. third
588. months
589. paragraph
590. raised
591. represent
592. soft
593. whether
594. clothes
595. flowers
596. shall
597. teacher
598. held
599. describe
600. drive

155 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 4, 2013