Fry Sight Words Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RF.1.3b

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In the late-1930s a series of high frequency used words were compiled by Edward William Dolch. These selections were later termed sight words with the intention of students being able to memorize these terms and know them on sight. This was an attempt to help students become more familiar with words, when reading. This list initially consisted of just over 220 in all. In the late 1950s Dr. Edward Fry ventured to take this a step further. This led to the creation of a list of 1,000 terms that included all the parts of speech. This list was theorized to prepare elementary students to tackle 90% of the words that they would encounter in any work of literature. These worksheets will help organizer Fry Sight list for your students as well as give them practice with them.

Fry Sight Words Worksheets To Print:

Little - A very fundamental handwriting shape for students to get comfortable with.

Same - We explore the use in a sentence.

Animal - Most kids favorites. They see this as something fun to do.

Letter - Have you ever thought of how many different ways that we use this term?

Mother - This is my complete thought in the company.

Three - See how this all fits into the sentence.

Need - Believe it or not, students will often have trouble differentiate this concept from a want. Their lives are not actually that difficult.

Kind - This is not an easy concept to visualize.

Years - Start by focusing on the first letter and then proceed from there.

Sound - How does that all sound? Focus on the fundamentals.

Name - This is usually the first step in the exchange of any new form of communication.

Great - That is how you will feel when doing this.

Picture - This is another term that the English language seems to have almost too many uses for.

Play - This is exactly what I was hoping to do later today.

House - The shape of this term when you are plotting in a sentence requires a bit of thought.

What are Fry Sight Words?

They are a list of words that were first compiled in 1957 for children. This list was a step up from the traditional Dolch words that were compiled in 1936. Both Fry and Dolch's sight word lists were developed following the frequency of their usage while speaking English.


This list comprises all aspects of speech. The list contains a total of 1,000 terms. Both lists were based on secondary sources, according to Readsters.com, although the Fry list was revised in 1980 to include terms from a more current word frequency census.


The American Heritage Word Frequency Book is the model the Fry words list follows, where it ranks 87,000 terms based on how often they appear in reading materials for grades 3 to 9.


Dolch sight words are high-frequency words that kids in kindergarten through second grade are likely to encounter. The first 300 terms are given in order of frequency, while the rest are classified by age group. To focus on fewer words, they are divided into 100-word groupings.


The Fry Sight Words list, which was expanded to include the most frequent 1,000 words, is a more current version of the Dolch list. Dr. Fry developed this list in the 50s, which catalogued the terms most found in reading materials for grades 3 through 9. A youngster who learns all 1,000 words will be able to read almost 90% of the terms and phrases in a standard book.


The Fry words are organized by frequency of occurrence and are frequently divided into groups of 100. As a result, the top 100 are the most common terms in the English language.


Why Teach With Them?


Fry words are frequently taught in kindergarten. You may start teaching them after your children are comfortable with the alphabet and letter sounds. Begin by using simply five to ten words. Add five to ten more words to the list once a student has mastered the first five or ten, but continue to study the previously taught terms.


By the conclusion of kindergarten, students should have mastered 20 sight or high-frequency words, and by the end of first grade, they should have mastered 100.


Allow your child's developmental readiness to guide you in a homeschool environment. Some children, as young as three years old, are interested, enthusiastic learners who are ready to begin acquiring high-frequency words. Others may not be ready until first, second, or even third grade, if at all.


Sight words may take a little more time and effort to acquire, but they may help a student stay up with his or her classmates in the classroom. When most students begin learning to read in first or second grade, they are exposed to sight words.


A youngster who has been a great reader from an early age may discover that sight words come easily to him or her as a result of repeated exposure from substantial reading. Sight words make up more than 75 percent of the average children's book.