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Phonics lesson 21: R-controlled vowels · Set 216 · 40 questions
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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. 1.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) purple (b) butter (c) car
  2. 2.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) dart (b) flower (c) corn
  3. 3.🐦 b_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
  4. 4.🍿 Which word is this? (a) popcern (b) popcorn (c) popcarn
  5. 5.🧣 Which word is this? (a) scarf (b) scirf (c) scorf
  6. 6.🐢 Which word is this? (a) turtle (b) tartle (c) tortle
  7. 7.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) circle (b) guitar (c) burger
  8. 8.🟣 Which word is this? (a) porple (b) parple (c) purple
  9. 9.🪜 ladd_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
  10. 10.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) car (b) spider (c) popcorn
  11. 11.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) scarf (b) popcorn (c) turtle
  12. 12.🍔 Which word is this? (a) borger (b) burger (c) barger
  13. 13.💻 Which word is this? (a) computer (b) computar (c) computor
  14. 14.🍔 b_ _ger — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) ar (c) or
  15. 15.🌽 Which word is this? (a) cern (b) carn (c) corn
  16. 16.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) flower (b) third (c) turkey
  17. 17.🦃 Which word is this? (a) torkey (b) turkey (c) tarkey
  18. 18.🟣 p_ _ple — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ur
  19. 19.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) bird (b) shark (c) popcorn
  20. 20.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) car (b) popcorn (c) turtle
  21. 21.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicern (b) unicarn (c) unicorn
  22. 22.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) unicorn (b) circus (c) turtle
  23. 23.🐦 Which word is this? (a) bard (b) bord (c) bird
  24. 24.🐯 Which word is this? (a) tigar (b) tiger (c) tigor
  25. 25.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) star (b) tiger (c) fork
  26. 26.🫙 Which word is this? (a) jor (b) jir (c) jar
  27. 27.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) ladder (b) dart (c) turtle
  28. 28.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) ladder (b) purple (c) guitar
  29. 29.🍴 f_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
  30. 30.⭐ Which word is this? (a) stor (b) star (c) stir
  31. 31.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) guitar (b) torch (c) tiger
  32. 32.🫙 j_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
  33. 33.🚗 c_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ir
  34. 34.💻 comput_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er
  35. 35.🎪 Which word is this? (a) circus (b) carcus (c) corcus
  36. 36.⭕ c_ _cle — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
  37. 37.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) corn (b) circle (c) flower
  38. 38.🚗 Which word is this? (a) car (b) cor (c) cir
  39. 39.🎯 Which word is this? (a) dort (b) durt (c) dart
  40. 40.⭕ Which word is this? (a) carcle (b) corcle (c) circle

Answer key

  1. purple
  2. corn
  3. ir
  4. popcorn
  5. scarf
  6. turtle
  7. burger
  8. purple
  9. er
  10. popcorn
  11. scarf
  12. burger
  13. computer
  14. ur
  15. corn
  16. turkey
  17. turkey
  18. ur
  19. shark
  20. car
  21. unicorn
  22. turtle
  23. bird
  24. tiger
  25. fork
  26. jar
  27. dart
  28. guitar
  29. or
  30. star
  31. tiger
  32. ar
  33. ar
  34. er
  35. circus
  36. ir
  37. flower
  38. car
  39. dart
  40. circle

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