R-Controlled Vowels Phonics Worksheets

Phonics lesson 21: R-controlled vowels · Set 441 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) unicorn (b) purple (c) flower
2. 2.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) burger (b) fork (c) shark
3. 3.🕷️ Which word is this? (a) spidar (b) spider (c) spidor
4. 4.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicirn (b) unicarn (c) unicorn
5. 5.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) butter (b) girl (c) purple
6. 6.🧶 Which word is this? (a) yern (b) yarn (c) yorn
7. 7.🟣 Which word is this? (a) porple (b) parple (c) purple
8. 8.⭐ Which word is this? (a) stor (b) star (c) stur
9. 9.🧈 butt_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) or (c) ar
10. 10.🟣 p_ _ple — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) ar (c) or
11. 11.🎸 guit_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
12. 12.⭕ Which word is this? (a) corcle (b) circle (c) carcle
13. 13.🫙 Which word is this? (a) jar (b) jir (c) jor
14. 14.🌽 c_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
15. 15.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) jar (b) popcorn (c) bird
16. 16.📄 pap_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
17. 17.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) hammer (b) guitar (c) turtle
18. 18.🔨 Which word is this? (a) hammor (b) hammar (c) hammer
19. 19.🍿 Which word is this? (a) popcarn (b) popcirn (c) popcorn
20. 20.💻 Which word is this? (a) computor (b) computer (c) computar
21. 21.🔦 Which word is this? (a) turch (b) torch (c) tarch
22. 22.🌸 flow_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) ar (c) or
23. 23.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) corn (b) paper (c) shark
24. 24.🐢 Which word is this? (a) tartle (b) turtle (c) tortle
25. 25.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) flower (b) turkey (c) star
26. 26.🥉 Which word is this? (a) third (b) thard (c) thord
27. 27.⭕ c_ _cle — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ir (c) ar
28. 28.💻 comput_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) ar (c) or
29. 29.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) third (b) fork (c) scarf
30. 30.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) fork (b) circle (c) butter
31. 31.🧈 Which word is this? (a) buttar (b) buttor (c) butter
32. 32.🥇 Which word is this? (a) forst (b) farst (c) first
33. 33.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) circus (b) shark (c) unicorn
34. 34.🫙 j_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
35. 35.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) flower (b) guitar (c) unicorn
36. 36.🪜 Which word is this? (a) ladder (b) laddor (c) laddar
37. 37.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) guitar (b) turkey (c) circus
38. 38.🥇 f_ _st — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) ar (c) or
39. 39.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) turtle (b) car (c) first
40. 40.🌸 Which word is this? (a) flowar (b) flower (c) flowor

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