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 is this? (a) yarn (b) yern (c) yorn
- 2.🎸 Which word is this? (a) guitor (b) guitar (c) guitir
- 3.🌽 c_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) ar (c) or
- 4.🧈 Which word is this? (a) buttor (b) buttar (c) butter
- 5.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) hammer (b) guitar (c) third
- 6.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) hammer (b) purple (c) guitar
- 7.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) fork (b) turtle (c) car
- 8.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) bird (b) turtle (c) unicorn
- 9.🍔 b_ _ger — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
- 10.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) popcorn (b) thermometer (c) scarf
- 11.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) fork (b) dart (c) thermometer
- 12.🟣 Which word is this? (a) porple (b) purple (c) parple
- 13.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicern (b) unicorn (c) unicarn
- 14.🟣 p_ _ple — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
- 15.⭕ Which word is this? (a) carcle (b) circle (c) corcle
- 16.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) car (b) turkey (c) unicorn
- 17.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) popcorn (b) hammer (c) star
- 18.🐢 Which word is this? (a) turtle (b) tartle (c) tortle
- 19.🌽 Which word is this? (a) cern (b) corn (c) carn
- 20.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) turtle (b) fork (c) spider
- 21.🥉 Which word is this? (a) thard (b) third (c) thord
- 22.🔦 Which word is this? (a) torch (b) tarch (c) terch
- 23.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) turkey (b) scarf (c) corn
- 24.🔨 Which word is this? (a) hammer (b) hammor (c) hammar
- 25.💻 Which word is this? (a) computor (b) computer (c) computar
- 26.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) turtle (b) circus (c) star
- 27.🧶 y_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ir (c) ar
- 28.🚗 Which word is this? (a) cir (b) car (c) cor
- 29.🍴 f_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ir (c) ar
- 30.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) yarn (b) computer (c) girl
- 31.🎪 Which word is this? (a) carcus (b) corcus (c) circus
- 32.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) unicorn (b) tiger (c) guitar
- 33.🍔 Which word is this? (a) burger (b) borger (c) barger
- 34.🌸 Which word is this? (a) flowor (b) flower (c) flowar
- 35.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) circle (b) shark (c) purple
- 36.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) unicorn (b) flower (c) jar
- 37.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) star (b) turkey (c) first
- 38.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) car (b) spider (c) first
- 39.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) computer (b) star (c) first
- 40.🐢 t_ _tle — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) or (c) ar
Answer key
- yarn
- guitar
- or
- butter
- third
- guitar
- fork
- bird
- ur
- thermometer
- dart
- purple
- unicorn
- ur
- circle
- unicorn
- popcorn
- turtle
- corn
- spider
- third
- torch
- corn
- hammer
- computer
- circus
- ar
- car
- or
- girl
- circus
- tiger
- burger
- flower
- purple
- flower
- turkey
- car
- star
- ur
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