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) hammer (b) torch (c) turtle
- 2.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) bird (b) jar (c) burger
- 3.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicarn (b) unicorn (c) unicirn
- 4.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) circle (b) shark (c) turkey
- 5.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) yarn (b) flower (c) fork
- 6.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) spider (b) burger (c) corn
- 7.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) shark (b) flower (c) torch
- 8.🌽 Which word is this? (a) carn (b) corn (c) cirn
- 9.🕷️ Which word is this? (a) spidor (b) spider (c) spidar
- 10.🥉 Which word is this? (a) thord (b) thard (c) third
- 11.🟣 p_ _ple — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ur
- 12.🍿 Which word is this? (a) popcorn (b) popcirn (c) popcarn
- 13.🍔 b_ _ger — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
- 14.🦈 sh_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
- 15.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) thermometer (b) burger (c) unicorn
- 16.🎯 Which word is this? (a) dort (b) dart (c) durt
- 17.🟣 Which word is this? (a) purple (b) parple (c) porple
- 18.🐢 Which word is this? (a) turtle (b) tortle (c) tartle
- 19.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) guitar (b) third (c) fork
- 20.🫙 Which word is this? (a) jar (b) jur (c) jor
- 21.📄 pap_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 22.👧 Which word is this? (a) gorl (b) girl (c) garl
- 23.🫙 j_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) or (c) ar
- 24.🍔 Which word is this? (a) burger (b) barger (c) borger
- 25.⭐ st_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) or (c) ar
- 26.💻 Which word is this? (a) computor (b) computar (c) computer
- 27.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) girl (b) guitar (c) unicorn
- 28.🐢 t_ _tle — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ur
- 29.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) circus (b) car (c) purple
- 30.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) fork (b) circus (c) guitar
- 31.⭐ Which word is this? (a) stor (b) star (c) stir
- 32.🌡️ Which word is this? (a) thormometer (b) tharmometer (c) thermometer
- 33.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) third (b) jar (c) flower
- 34.🦃 t_ _key — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ur
- 35.🎸 Which word is this? (a) guiter (b) guitar (c) guitor
- 36.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) bird (b) computer (c) fork
- 37.🦃 Which word is this? (a) turkey (b) tarkey (c) torkey
- 38.🎪 c_ _cus — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
- 39.🌽 c_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) ar (c) or
- 40.🥉 th_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) ar (c) or
Answer key
- turtle
- jar
- unicorn
- shark
- yarn
- corn
- torch
- corn
- spider
- third
- ur
- popcorn
- ur
- ar
- unicorn
- dart
- purple
- turtle
- fork
- jar
- er
- girl
- ar
- burger
- ar
- computer
- girl
- ur
- circus
- guitar
- star
- thermometer
- third
- ur
- guitar
- bird
- turkey
- ir
- or
- ir
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