Fry sight words, second 100
The second hundred Fry words are words 101 to 200 by frequency in English print: "over", "new", "sound", "take", "only" and their neighbours. With the first hundred they cover about two thirds of what a child reads, and they are the usual 1st grade year.
Free printable PDF, 1st grade to 2nd grade.
One page, black and white, prints the same every time.
What is on the sheet
The table below is the sheet as it prints with these options: No.
The second hundred 100 words
| after | does | letter | over | such |
| again | end | line | page | take |
| air | even | little | picture | tell |
| also | follow | live | place | things |
| America | form | man | play | think |
| animal | found | me | point | three |
| another | give | means | put | through |
| answer | good | men | read | too |
| any | great | most | right | try |
| around | hand | mother | same | turn |
| ask | help | move | say | us |
| away | here | much | sentence | very |
| back | home | must | set | want |
| because | house | name | should | well |
| before | just | need | show | went |
| big | kind | new | small | where |
| boy | know | off | sound | why |
| came | land | old | spell | work |
| change | large | only | still | world |
| different | learn | our | study | years |
What changes in the second hundred
The first hundred are mostly grammar words. The second hundred start to carry meaning: "animal", "house", "mother", "picture", "world". More of them can be sounded out, so this list is where phonics and sight reading begin to work together, and a child who knows the common vowel teams will find a good third of the list already readable.
The list also holds the first words that are often misspelled for years, "because", "does", "through", "again", which is why 2nd grade spelling programmes borrow from it.
Using the list
Check the words in the same way as the first hundred: a word is known when it is read without a pause on three days. Sort the unticked words into ones that can be sounded out and ones that cannot, and treat the two piles differently, the first with the phonics pages and the second with cards. The third hundred is the next page.
Common questions
- Which grade is the second hundred for?
- First grade in most programmes, with the words finished by the start of 2nd. A strong kindergarten reader can start it in the spring.