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Fry Word Checklists

Use these free Fry Word checklists to help track student progress over the year. 

These Fry word lists are another free resource for teachers from The Curriculum Corner.

These Fry Word checklists are great to add to data binders to help document growth.

Use these forms to track student Fry word growth – a good tool for progress monitoring.

Fry Word Progress Checklists FREE from The Curriculum Corner

How to Use the Fry Word Checklists

We have included three columns on our Fry word lists. This will help you track your students more effectively.

Simply date the top of the column when you give assessments.  With these forms, students can each work at their own level!  As students progress through word lists, move on to the next level.

I always like to begin the year by completing these checklists with students.

Tip: Teachers should not complete the whole packet with students. Instead, start on the 1st 100 words. If students are struggling, you might only do a check on the first 20 words.

You do not want to create frustration by having them work through the entire list of words when we can tell they do not have them mastered.

If students are easily reading the words, we might skip to the second and then third list.

Why we like these Fry Word checklists…

I created these Fry Word progress lists years ago when we were focusing on sight words in my classroom.

Within my class I had a large group of non-readers in my second grade class. I was working with our interventionists to find new strategies that would work with my students.

After many attempts, I found that a large group of my students benefited from targeted sight word practice.

 

Because of this, I was in search of a way to track their progress. Tracking progress was not only for data purposes but I also found that it was very motivational.

My students loved that these charts gave them an easy to see a visual of their progress.

These tracking sheets became motivational for my students. This wasn’t my original intent in their creation but a benefit that was so important to me!

Fry Word Check Off Lists FREE from The Curriculum Corner
Download the Fry Word Lists Below:

Fry Lists 1 – 10

Fry Progress Master List  

This form can be used to keep track of which Fry list each student is currently working on mastering.  Available as a PDF or word document.  Print the PDF and hand write your student names or use the word document so you can electronically add your student names.

Download the progress tracking pages below:

***Fry Progress Word Document***

**Fry Progress PDF Document**

Identifying Fry Word Lists by Grade Level

Often teachers and parents are curious to know which Fry word list is appropriate for which grade level. 

In many districts, this is predetermined. If your district does not have a set goal, this is the common breakdown:

  • Kindergarten sight words: first 50 words
  • 1st grade sight words: first 100 Fry words
  • 2nd grade sight words: second 100 Fry words
  • 3rd grade sight words: third 100 Fry words
  • 4th & 5th grade sight words: fourth 100 Fry words through tenth 100 Fry words

Other Fry Word Mastery Ideas

Once we have completed a section of the checklist with students, we make Fry Word Stacks to help students practice. If you are looking for an effective way to help students master their Fry Words, take a look at Fry Word Stacks.

You might also be interested in our complete Fry Word Collection.  You will find an assortment of resources including games within this post.

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Comments

  1. Marta Galindo says

    August 6, 2015 at 11:18 am

    This an amazing site for teachers, as well as coordinators that work with curriculum.

    Reply
  2. Aretha says

    August 7, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    Thanks for all the documents. I won’t be creating any this year. The documents I’ve looked over and saved will definitely help in tracking students in every aspect of my teaching.

    Reply
  3. Michele says

    August 31, 2015 at 5:11 pm

    Thank you so much for these! I love them!
    By any chance do you ladies happen to have any high frequency word lists in Spanish? ( I thought I would ask)

    Reply
    • Jill & Cathy says

      September 2, 2015 at 2:31 pm

      Hi Michele! Thanks, but no we don’t have Fry lists in Spanish. Something we will think about adding though!

      Reply
  4. Michelle says

    October 19, 2015 at 9:28 pm

    Exactly what I was looking for for fluency. By chance do you have the word on a separate word card list?

    Reply
    • Jill & Cathy says

      October 25, 2015 at 3:02 pm

      Hi Michelle,
      We don’t have them on a separate list right now, but will put that on our to-do list (which is currently kind of long). We have always just copied an extra checklist page or used our cards (stacked in order) for students to read from for assessments. Good idea, though! Thanks!

      Reply
  5. Sonja Virden says

    February 9, 2016 at 8:45 am

    This is wonderful! (The site I mean.) WHAT?! Yesterday at our PLC someone used one of your helpful lists and I had to research the name at the bottom of the page…VOILA! What a relief to a second year teacher, that I will not have to fork over my next paycheck to get help for my little angels! Thank you!

    Reply
  6. Tiffani says

    February 12, 2016 at 11:49 am

    Thank you for the great resources!

    Reply
  7. Mariela Freay says

    March 2, 2016 at 4:57 pm

    Thank you for these lists and progress reports. It is exactly what I was looking for.

    Reply
  8. Megan Wolfe says

    March 21, 2016 at 3:15 pm

    Homeschooling mom is very thankful for your awesome site!

    Reply
  9. Traci says

    May 5, 2016 at 12:22 pm

    These are great! Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
  10. Patti Harvey says

    July 2, 2016 at 5:40 pm

    Great resources you have created! Thank you, Keep up the great work!

    Reply
  11. Meredith Weibel says

    November 8, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    Thanks so much for these amazing resources! I just noticed an error in the Fry Lists 1-10 document (which I love!)-word 148 should be form not farm.

    Reply
    • Meredith Weibel says

      November 8, 2016 at 3:38 pm

      farm is word 376

      Reply
    • Jill & Cathy says

      November 9, 2016 at 12:59 pm

      Hi, Meredith! We have checked multiple lists and are finding it both ways. What resource to you have that shows form? We will look into it farther. Thanks!

      Reply
      • Meredith Weibel says

        November 9, 2016 at 4:20 pm

        Hi! I used http://www.k12reader.com/worksheet/fry-words-complete-list/view/, http://www.timrasinski.com/presentations/dr_edward_fry_instant_word_list_-_high_frequency_words.pdf, & the book https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Teachers-Book-Lists-4th/dp/0130884065. I searched for the original Fry list but couldn’t find it. I apologize if I am wrong! Thanks again for the resources! 🙂 Meredith

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        • Jill & Cathy says

          March 6, 2017 at 1:51 pm

          Hi Meredith! Thanks for letting us know your concerns. We have checked several sources and found it both ways. That said, we will leave ours the way it is for now since it would require us to change quite a few of our Fry resources. Not sure why there are two versions?? So sorry!!

          Reply
  12. debbie bryant says

    October 21, 2019 at 10:29 pm

    Can you please email me an editable 3 column fry word checklist? Thank you!

    Reply
    • Jill & Cathy says

      November 1, 2019 at 4:20 pm

      Hi Debbie and thanks for your inquiry. Though we have been adding more editable resources, much of what we create is delivered in PDF format and locked. We were finding versions of our work popping up on TPT for sale and have struggled with what to do about that. We aren’t currently offering that checklist in an editable format. Please email us directly if you have further questions. Thanks!

      Reply

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