Fry's Phrases

Fry's Phrases were developed by Edward Fry. They contains the most used words in reading and writing. The words in these PowerPoint presentations make up almost half of the words met in any reading task. We have placed them on the slide show so that our students can hear the words, & see the words to assist with their automatically.  Successful readers decode words so that they are said "instantly". This automatically is essential to comprehension.

 A few of the phrases are:  

The people

write it down

by the water

We have 3 sets of 100 phrases for the students to listen to and hear. They are available in the three links on the left hand side of the page.

If you do not have PowerPoint you may go to Mircosoft's website and download the PowerPoint Viewer. We have provided a link directly to the site.