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) burger (b) shark (c) hammer
- 2.🍿 popc_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) or (c) ar
- 3.🌸 Which word is this? (a) flower (b) flowar (c) flowor
- 4.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) turtle (b) first (c) paper
- 5.🪜 Which word is this? (a) ladder (b) laddor (c) laddar
- 6.🐢 t_ _tle — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
- 7.🐯 tig_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 8.🪜 ladd_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 9.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) popcorn (b) turkey (c) computer
- 10.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) purple (b) corn (c) first
- 11.⭐ st_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ur
- 12.💻 comput_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er
- 13.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) butter (b) circle (c) guitar
- 14.🎯 d_ _t — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ur (c) or
- 15.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) popcorn (b) star (c) girl
- 16.🥉 th_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) ar (c) or
- 17.🌽 Which word is this? (a) cirn (b) carn (c) corn
- 18.🦄 unic_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 19.🐢 Which word is this? (a) tartle (b) tortle (c) turtle
- 20.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) tiger (b) corn (c) jar
- 21.🔨 hamm_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 22.🦃 Which word is this? (a) tarkey (b) torkey (c) turkey
- 23.🍔 b_ _ger — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
- 24.🐦 b_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
- 25.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) turkey (b) torch (c) dart
- 26.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicarn (b) unicurn (c) unicorn
- 27.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) first (b) shark (c) butter
- 28.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) third (b) ladder (c) star
- 29.🎪 Which word is this? (a) corcus (b) carcus (c) circus
- 30.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) purple (b) fork (c) hammer
- 31.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) torch (b) spider (c) circle
- 32.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) corn (b) tiger (c) guitar
- 33.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) circus (b) dart (c) turkey
- 34.🕷️ spid_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 35.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) spider (b) star (c) turtle
- 36.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) flower (b) first (c) turkey
- 37.🔨 Which word is this? (a) hammar (b) hammor (c) hammer
- 38.🐦 Which word is this? (a) bord (b) bird (c) bard
- 39.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) butter (b) circus (c) dart
- 40.🎯 Which word is this? (a) dort (b) dart (c) durt
Answer key
- burger
- or
- flower
- turtle
- ladder
- ur
- er
- er
- computer
- purple
- ar
- er
- guitar
- ar
- popcorn
- ir
- corn
- or
- turtle
- jar
- er
- turkey
- ur
- ir
- torch
- unicorn
- first
- ladder
- circus
- hammer
- circle
- tiger
- circus
- er
- star
- turkey
- hammer
- bird
- dart
- dart
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