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

Answer key

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

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