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 “ar”? (a) girl (b) hammer (c) star
- 2.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) thermometer (b) car (c) circus
- 3.💻 comput_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 4.🐢 Which word is this? (a) tartle (b) turtle (c) tortle
- 5.🔨 Which word is this? (a) hammor (b) hammer (c) hammar
- 6.🎪 Which word is this? (a) corcus (b) carcus (c) circus
- 7.🐢 t_ _tle — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ur
- 8.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) ladder (b) purple (c) scarf
- 9.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) first (b) unicorn (c) guitar
- 10.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) burger (b) yarn (c) corn
- 11.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) dart (b) spider (c) turkey
- 12.🌽 Which word is this? (a) carn (b) cern (c) corn
- 13.🦈 Which word is this? (a) shork (b) shurk (c) shark
- 14.⭕ Which word is this? (a) circle (b) carcle (c) corcle
- 15.🌽 c_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ur
- 16.🌡️ Which word is this? (a) thormometer (b) tharmometer (c) thermometer
- 17.🐯 tig_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 18.🧈 Which word is this? (a) buttor (b) buttar (c) butter
- 19.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) thermometer (b) unicorn (c) first
- 20.📄 pap_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 21.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) tiger (b) popcorn (c) shark
- 22.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) popcorn (b) turkey (c) guitar
- 23.🍴 f_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ur
- 24.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) car (b) torch (c) circus
- 25.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) bird (b) turtle (c) corn
- 26.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) turkey (b) ladder (c) circus
- 27.🦄 unic_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 28.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) turkey (b) third (c) scarf
- 29.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) third (b) tiger (c) popcorn
- 30.🔦 Which word is this? (a) turch (b) torch (c) tarch
- 31.👧 g_ _l — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
- 32.🚗 Which word is this? (a) cur (b) car (c) cor
- 33.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) third (b) thermometer (c) fork
- 34.🔨 hamm_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) ar (c) or
- 35.🍴 Which word is this? (a) fork (b) firk (c) fark
- 36.🧣 sc_ _f — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
- 37.👧 Which word is this? (a) garl (b) girl (c) gorl
- 38.🎸 Which word is this? (a) guiter (b) guitar (c) guitor
- 39.🌸 flow_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 40.⭐ Which word is this? (a) stor (b) star (c) stur
Answer key
- star
- car
- er
- turtle
- hammer
- circus
- ur
- purple
- first
- corn
- spider
- corn
- shark
- circle
- or
- thermometer
- er
- butter
- unicorn
- er
- shark
- turkey
- or
- torch
- bird
- ladder
- or
- scarf
- third
- torch
- ir
- car
- thermometer
- er
- fork
- ar
- girl
- guitar
- er
- star
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