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Fry Frequency Words - Grade One
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Oh, grade one! Fry sight words are an essential part of your reading and writing journey. By now, you have mastered the first 50 words and are ready to dive deeper into the wonderful world of language. You can use these words to create silly sentences, play word games, and write your own stories! Your teacher might even challenge you to a Fry word scavenger hunt, where you'll get to search for these tricky words hidden around the classroom. Keep practicing your Fry words, and before you know it, you'll be reading and writing like a pro!
Single Page, Fry Word List - First 100
High Five Sight Words:
You can also trace your child's hand on construction paper and glue these flash cards into the center of the hand. Hang these on the fridge or your word wall. When your child is in the mood, have them read the word on the handprint and give the hand a High Five!
Six per page Flashcards - Fry First 100
My teaching approach involves introducing the sheets gradually, one by one. Once a child has confidently grasped the reading material on a particular sheet, I move on to the next one. Typically, after a week - with approximately one sheet per day - I introduce four to five sheets to the children. After this, I introduce the dotted line (trace) sheets and the picture clue nouns, which we continue to play with for another three weeks. This way, the five sheets are utilized over the course of a month's worth of teaching time. The kids can engage in activities such as practicing writing the words and creating short phrases or sentences.
Sentence Sequencing:
There are some general noun cards listed on this page, but the fry cards can also be used in conjunction with the themed sentence sequencing picture clue cards to keep things exciting -- for example you can use Fourth of July cards during patriotic holidays, Noah's Ark cards when studying the Bible or Farm animals cards when doing a farm thematic unit.
As you may have observed, I have intentionally avoided arranging the words in alphabetical order. This is because grouping together all the words with the same letter can pose a challenge for some children. Instead, I have categorized the words into groups that I believe are most conducive to learning, enabling children to form common sentences and phrases with ease and in a shorter amount of time.
Picture Six Per Page Flashcards (not Fry Words)
Here are some extra flash cards you can combine with the Fry Sight Words that children can use to create their own sentences!
More themes of image based, 6 per page flash cards:
Bible Story Sentence Sequencing Cards
Grouchy Ladybug (Eric Carle)
Ideas for Using the Flashcards:
The flashcards can simply be held up, giving the child the opportunity to read each one. But if you're looking for a more engaging activity, try combining the Fry flashcards with the noun picture flashcards for a variety of activities (I've listed some suggestions here from simplest to hardest). If you're printing the cards for one of the higher grades, you should consider printing the ones for previous grades as well -- the Fry words are cummulative and you'll be able to make more complex sentences.
- ACTIVITY ONE: Find the card
- Using the flashcards you've worked on so far, have an adult or older child arrange the flashcards to form a sentence or phrase.
- Read the sentence with/to the child
- Remove one of the dolch words from the sentence and put it back in the pile (you may want to make the pile smaller in the beginning to make the activity easier).
- Give the pile to the child and have them find the correct card to place back in the sentence.
- Re-read the sentence.
- ACTIVITY TWO: Which word makes sense?
- have an adult arrange the flashcards to form a sentence, leaving one card out.
- read the incomplete sentence with/to the child.
- present between 2 and 5 cards to the child (one of them should make the sentence complete)
- have the child chose which is the correct card
- re-read the sentence with the card chosen. Talk about whether it makes sense or not.
- ACTIVITY THREE: Make phrases and sentences.
- Give the children all of the flash cards you have learned so far.
- Have them rearrange the flash cards in different ways to make phrases or sentences.
- Encourage them to print their sentences and phrases onto a piece of paper. You can make simple phrases like "morning and night" or full sentences like "My best friend and I like to play ball."
- Rather than printing the sentences you can just have fun organizing and reorganizing the cards during free time.
Complete Grade One Fry Word List
a
about
after
again
all
an
and
any
are
as
at
be
been
before
boy
but
by
can
cat
come
day
did
do
down
for
from
get
give
go
good
had
has
have
he
her
here
him
his
how
I
if
in
is
it
just
know
like
little
long
make
man
many
me
much
my
new
no
not
of
old
on
one
or
other
our
out
put
said
see
she
so
some
take
that
the
their
them
then
there
they
this
three
to
two
up
us
very
was
we
were
what
when
which
who
will
with
work
would
you
your