1. The First 300 Most Commonly Used English Words Taken from: The Reading Teachers Book of Lists, Third Edition, by Edward Bernard Fry, Ph.D, Jacqueline E. Kress, Ed.D& Dona Lee Fountoukidis, Ed.D

2. high

3. every

4. near

5. add

6. food

7. between

8. own

9. below

10. country

11. plant

12. last

13. school

14. father

15. keep

16. tree

17. never

18. start

19. city

20. earth

21. eye

22. light

23. thought

24. head

25. under

26. story

27. saw

28. left

29. don’t

30. few

31. while

32. along

33. might

34. close

35. something

36. seem

37. next

38. hard

39. open

40. example

41. begin

42. life

43. always

44. those

45. both

46. paper

47. together

48. got

49. group

50. often

51. run

52. important

53. until

54. children

55. side

56. feet

57. car

58. mile

59. night

60. walk

61. white

62. sea

63. began

64. grow

65. took

66. river

67. four

68. carry

69. state

70. once

71. book

72. hear

73. stop

74. without

75. second

76. later

77. miss

78. idea

79. enough

80. eat

81. face

82. watch

83. far

84. Indian

85. really

86. almost

87. let

88. above

89. girl

90. sometimes

91. mountain

92. cut

93. young

94. talk

95. soon

96. list

97. song

98. being

99. leave

100. family

101. it’s