Words TowerThe Fry words 201–300 list100 words
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Fry words 201–300 — 100 words. Printed from https://vocabularygames.org/sight-word-games/fry-words-201-300/
About this list
By the third hundred the words carry real meaning — mountains, country, family, important, example — and a child who reads them has most of an ordinary page covered. These are also the words that start appearing in written work, so spelling them matters as much as reading them.
A few entries show their age: «Indian» is on Fry’s original list and is included here unchanged, because that is what the list is. It is worth a conversation rather than a drill.
What trips children up here
- «enough», «thought» and «through» share a spelling pattern that says something different every time.
- «almost», «always» and «along» begin alike and are easy to swap at speed.
- «important» and «example» are the longest words on the list — read them in pieces.
- «don’t» and «it’s» are the two apostrophes here; both are contractions, not possessives.
- «second» means two different things, and children usually know only one of them.
How to work through it
Split the hundred in two and work a fortnight on each half; a hundred words at once is a wall.
Take the long words as spelling words and the short ones as reading words — they need different practice.
Let your child read a page aloud and mark the words they stop on. Those are the ones to put in the game.
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 201–300 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 201–300 list
Questions
Are there more than 300 Fry words?
Yes, a thousand in all, in ten sets of a hundred. The first 300 are the ones that matter most for early reading, and those are the ones built into the game.
Why is “Indian” on the list?
Because it is on Fry’s 1980 list and we publish the list as it is rather than quietly editing it. Use it as a chance to talk about how words age.
What should we do after these 300?
Move to the words of whatever your child is reading and to the school’s own lists. Paste them into Test prep, with the test date, and the same game practises them.
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 101–200. All of them on the sight word games page.