R-Controlled Vowels Phonics Worksheets
How the sounds work (The r changes the vowel): Spot the vowel + r: ar, or, er, ir or ur. Read it as one sound: c-ar, f-or-k. er, ir and ur sound the same, so learn which spelling each word uses: bird, turtle, tiger.
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- 1.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) purple (b) butter (c) car
- 2.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) dart (b) flower (c) corn
- 3.🐦 b_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
- 4.🍿 Which word is this? (a) popcern (b) popcorn (c) popcarn
- 5.🧣 Which word is this? (a) scarf (b) scirf (c) scorf
- 6.🐢 Which word is this? (a) turtle (b) tartle (c) tortle
- 7.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) circle (b) guitar (c) burger
- 8.🟣 Which word is this? (a) porple (b) parple (c) purple
- 9.🪜 ladd_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 10.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) car (b) spider (c) popcorn
- 11.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) scarf (b) popcorn (c) turtle
- 12.🍔 Which word is this? (a) borger (b) burger (c) barger
- 13.💻 Which word is this? (a) computer (b) computar (c) computor
- 14.🍔 b_ _ger — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) ar (c) or
- 15.🌽 Which word is this? (a) cern (b) carn (c) corn
- 16.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) flower (b) third (c) turkey
- 17.🦃 Which word is this? (a) torkey (b) turkey (c) tarkey
- 18.🟣 p_ _ple — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ur
- 19.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) bird (b) shark (c) popcorn
- 20.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) car (b) popcorn (c) turtle
- 21.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicern (b) unicarn (c) unicorn
- 22.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) unicorn (b) circus (c) turtle
- 23.🐦 Which word is this? (a) bard (b) bord (c) bird
- 24.🐯 Which word is this? (a) tigar (b) tiger (c) tigor
- 25.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) star (b) tiger (c) fork
- 26.🫙 Which word is this? (a) jor (b) jir (c) jar
- 27.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) ladder (b) dart (c) turtle
- 28.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) ladder (b) purple (c) guitar
- 29.🍴 f_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 30.⭐ Which word is this? (a) stor (b) star (c) stir
- 31.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) guitar (b) torch (c) tiger
- 32.🫙 j_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
- 33.🚗 c_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ir
- 34.💻 comput_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er
- 35.🎪 Which word is this? (a) circus (b) carcus (c) corcus
- 36.⭕ c_ _cle — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
- 37.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) corn (b) circle (c) flower
- 38.🚗 Which word is this? (a) car (b) cor (c) cir
- 39.🎯 Which word is this? (a) dort (b) durt (c) dart
- 40.⭕ Which word is this? (a) carcle (b) corcle (c) circle
Answer key
- purple
- corn
- ir
- popcorn
- scarf
- turtle
- burger
- purple
- er
- popcorn
- scarf
- burger
- computer
- ur
- corn
- turkey
- turkey
- ur
- shark
- car
- unicorn
- turtle
- bird
- tiger
- fork
- jar
- dart
- guitar
- or
- star
- tiger
- ar
- ar
- er
- circus
- ir
- flower
- car
- dart
- circle
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