Use our Fry word fluency sentences to help students improve their fluency skills. Focuses on the first 500 words.
This is another free resource for busy teachers from The Curriculum Corner.
We believe that helping students master Fry words (or other sight words you work on) can help them become better readers. Part of becoming a better reader is fluency.
These Fry Fluency Sentences will help your students use sight words they have mastered to develop their reading fluency.
Resources within this post include Fry fluency sentence cards, Fry fluency sentences tracking pages and a Fry fluency sentence reading page.
We feel that the Fry fluency tracking pages can help those teachers in need of data. When you need to show student growth, these pages will give you an easy way to track improvement in reading. 
Our Fry Fluency Sentences
For these sentences, we separated the Fry list into groups of twenty words.
We then wrote a set of sentences that includes all the words in that group of 20. This will allow students to get practice decoding and using the words they are learning in context. (Special thanks to Jessica Guelcher for writing the fifth hundred!!)
The sentences include statements, questions, commands and exclamations so that your students are practicing their intonation for the different types.
To create a these sentences we did need to include words outside of the Fry list. We made an attempt to use words that would be known to students.
We have also created a teacher checklist for the Fry fluency sentences. You will find pages of the sentences for students to read for the assessment.
This is an update to our original Fry fluency sentences. This is a more complete set of our previous materials.
(Each set of 100 words is provided in a different color for easy organization and assignments. However, the groups of twenty have been noted on each card.)
The cards are great for practice of these sentences. You can place these at a literacy center and have students practice with partners or independently.
Differentiation is easy because you can tell students which color of cards they need to focus on.
You can also print these to send home with students for practice. Even one or two cards each evening for early readers is a great idea for having them work on their fluency.
Download our Fry Fluency Resources Below:
Fry Fluency Sentence Checklist
Fry Fluency Sentence Student Reading Pages
Green Fry Sentence Cards First Hundred (1 – 100)
Purple Fry Sentence Cards Second Hundred (101 – 200)
Orange Fry Sentence Cards Third Hundred (201 – 300)
Yellow Fry Sentence Cards Third Hundred (301-400)
Blue Fry Sentence Cards Fourth Hundred (401 – 500)
If you are looking for additional sentences for your kids focusing on the first 100 words, try these:
Superhero Themed Fry Fluency
You will find our complete collection of free Fry Word resources here:
Fry Resource Collection
Jen Gutierrez says
THANK YOU…. you guys are awesome!
Belynda says
On the Fry Fluency Sentences how long do you time them and what would the accuracy be to be able to move on the the next set?
Thanks,
Belynda
Jill & Cathy says
Hi Belynda! We wouldn’t necessarily suggest timing the students as they read these sentences. We would judge their mastery of these sentences based on the ease with which they are able to read the entire sentence – without stopping to sound out any words. If they need to stop to figure out a word, we would mark that sentence as not mastered. We would move to the next set only after we have assessed them individually and have marked all the sentences in the set as mastered (read fluently without stops, and perhaps even with expression as well). Hope this helps! Maybe talk with your colleagues if you feel the need to time your students to develop something you all feel is appropriate. We suppose you could also have a strong reader read through each set of sentences and time that student to see what time would be appropriate for each set.
Ms. Elle Wilson says
You two are Truly a BIG BLESSING from above. I am so thankful for this website as a teacher who grade level has changed.
Carin says
Thank you. These are just awesome
Michelle G says
Do you plan on adding up to 800 for the phrases?
Jill & Cathy says
Hi Michelle! We don’t currently have plans to write and create additional resources for the Fry Fluency phrases, but we are planning on looking at and updating our Fry Word resources this summer a bit, so we will discuss some additions. Thanks!
Kristen Perkins says
My students start with Fry Words, then move to Fry Phrases as part of their homework each night. That typically takes all year to master, with a few who move beyond those two pieces at the very end of the year. This year, my students have mastered all of the Fry Words and have zipped right through all of the Fry Phrases. I was looking for something to replace those with as part of their fluency practice/homework…and this is it! Thank you so much!
Diane says
Do you have them for the next 500 also
Jill & Cathy says
Hi Diane, we don’t currently have the fluency sentence Fry resource for the second 500. It is something we will take a look at and perhaps put on our calendar this year if we feel it would work well with those words.
Barbara F, Thompson says
I work as a volunteer at my granddaughter (3rd grade- 65 students) elementary school. My second year, I have been searching for new practice & something for their parents to help/review Fry sight words. In year 2017/18 I used a word check list, missed word game, dice game, write missed words in ABC order on climb the stairs chart. Thank your for any additional Fry Sight Words information. PS- I am NOT a retired school teacher – just a love of kids.
B wong says
That is awesome! Thank you so much for creating this very useful resource!
DeJa D. says
Random question, but do you have a blank copy of the template used in these documents? I would love to create a game with these and would prefer to use the same template if possible.
Jill & Cathy says
Hi DeJa, We don’t provide many templates of our resources because we constantly battle people creating things with the templates and then selling them as their own on TPT. 🙁 Were you looking for the cards, another piece from this set or the whole set?
Jessica says
A thousand thank yous!!! What a fabulous resource!