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Fry Word List - Grade Two
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Fry frequency words are a list of the most commonly used words in the English language. These words, when memorized, can significantly improve a child's reading and writing skills, and serve as a foundation for their future language development.
In this section I've included a series of flashcards that can be printed and used to reinforce learning, the complete list of grade two Fry words (see bottom page) and some activity ideas for using the flashcards.
The first thing I do is print out and supply the kids with all the grade one flashcards and do a quick review of those. This way they have them in their "toolkit" when making sentences and doing creative activities with the grade two cards.
Single Page, Fry Word List - Second 100
Sentence Sequencing:
The fry cards can also be used in conjunction with the themed sentence sequencing picture clue cards to keep things exciting.
You'll notice I have not presented them in alphabetical order. Doing all the words with the same letter at the same time can be difficult for some children. I've put them in groups that I consider to be the most efficient for learning, allowing children to make common sentences and phrases as quickly as possible.
However, you are welcome to encourage the children to practice ordering things alphabetically using these cards -- the complete complete list is ordered alphabetically so can be used to self-check work.
Six per page Flashcards - Fry Second 100
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 Dolch 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 Dolch 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.
- ACTIVITY FOUR: Modified "go fish".
- Give the children all of the flash cards they have learned so far.
- Give each child 10 cards at random.
- At the beginning of each turn, allow the child to draw a card.
- Rather than matching pairs as in regular "go fish", allow each child to form phrases or sentences from the cards in their hand. If they cannot make a phrase they draw another card and then their turn is over and the next person gets to play. In this case I wouldn't let the kids ask their opponent for a card because there are too many to remember... just allow them to draw a card.
- The game ends when one player has used ten cards (or the number of your choice) to make phrases or sentences.
- Option: You can allow the children to add to their own sentences... ex: If they make the sentence "I like to play" they could later add "with the ball" to make the larger sentence "I like to play with the ball". This makes the game a little more challenging.
Complete Grade Two Fry Word List
also
am
another
away
back
ball
because
best
better
big
black
book
both
box
bring
call
came
color
could
dear
each
eat
end
far
find
first
five
found
four
friend
girl
got
hand
high
home
house
into
kind
last
leave
left
let
live
look
made
may
men
more
morning
most
mother
must
name
near
never
next
night
only
open
over
own
people
play
please
present
pretty
ran
read
red
right
run
saw
say
school
seem
shall
should
soon
stand
such
sure
tell
than
these
thing
think
too
tree
under
until
upon
use
want
way
where
while
white
why
wish
year