Words TowerThe Fry words 101–200 list100 words
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Fry words 101–200 — 100 words. Printed from https://vocabularygames.org/sight-word-games/fry-words-101-200/
About this list
Where the first hundred were almost all function words, the second hundred bring in words a child can picture: animal, mother, house, picture, world. They are still frequent enough to be worth learning as whole words, but they are easier to talk about, and that makes the practice less abstract.
Several words here appear in school instructions — answer, learn, study, spell, form, point — so they are worth recognising before a worksheet asks for them.
What trips children up here
- «America» and «another» sit next to each other and start alike; only one is capitalised.
- «know», «know» and «now» are one letter and one silent letter apart in a child’s mind — «know» and «now» are both on this list.
- «through» is the hardest spelling on the hundred; it is worth learning alone.
- «great» does not rhyme with «eat», although «means» and «learn» play by their own rules too.
- «where», «were», «well» and «went» cluster at the end of the list and blur together.
How to work through it
Pick out the words your child can draw — animal, hand, house, picture — and let those carry the harder ones along.
Practise the school-instruction words before a test week: answer, study, learn, show, tell.
Keep «through» and «great» in the rotation longer than the rest. They need it.
The same list, as a game
In Words Tower the word is said aloud and your child walks into the door that carries it, on a tower that turns as they climb. Choose 🔤 Learn to read → Fry words 101–200 when you pick the words, and the tower is built from this list. A word that was missed comes back sooner; a word that is known comes back rarely. There are no ads, no sign-up and no timers, and progress stays in the browser on your own device.
Play the Fry words 101–200 list
Questions
Do we need the first hundred first?
It helps, because those words appear inside every sentence you will use to practise these. But the lists can be mixed: use the first hundred to find gaps and the second to add new words.
Are these words harder to spell than to read?
For most children, yes, and the difference grows across the Fry lists. Ask for a word in writing once it is read easily.
How long should a session be?
Three to five minutes, most days, beats half an hour on Sunday. The game is built around short climbs for that reason.
Do we have to pay for anything?
No. The lists, the recordings and the game are free, there are no ads and no sign-up, and progress stays in the browser on your own device.
Can I print this list?
Yes. Print the page and you get the list on paper, without the buttons and without the rest of the site — one sheet to put on the fridge or hand out in class.
The other lists
Before this: Fry words 1–100. Next: Fry words 201–300. All of them on the sight word games page.