Here are links to the 300 most common English Words.The first 25 make up about one-third of all printed material in English. The first 100 make up about one-half of all written material, and the 300 taken together make up about sixty-five percent of all written material in English.
Beginning readers should be introduced to these words in an order different from the order in which they are given in the following lists. See First Words to Teach