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) scerf (b) scorf (c) scarf
- 2.🌽 c_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 3.🔨 Which word is this? (a) hammar (b) hammer (c) hammor
- 4.🍔 b_ _ger — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) or (c) ar
- 5.🍔 Which word is this? (a) barger (b) borger (c) burger
- 6.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) hammer (b) fork (c) guitar
- 7.🔦 Which word is this? (a) turch (b) tarch (c) torch
- 8.🚗 Which word is this? (a) car (b) cur (c) cor
- 9.🌽 Which word is this? (a) carn (b) cern (c) corn
- 10.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) shark (b) tiger (c) turtle
- 11.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) star (b) fork (c) turtle
- 12.⭐ st_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er
- 13.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) guitar (b) girl (c) thermometer
- 14.🎯 Which word is this? (a) dart (b) dort (c) durt
- 15.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) popcorn (b) dart (c) bird
- 16.💻 Which word is this? (a) computor (b) computar (c) computer
- 17.🥉 th_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) ar (c) or
- 18.🕷️ Which word is this? (a) spidar (b) spidor (c) spider
- 19.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) spider (b) third (c) dart
- 20.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) circle (b) unicorn (c) car
- 21.🫙 j_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) er (c) ar
- 22.🎸 Which word is this? (a) guitar (b) guitor (c) guitir
- 23.🌸 Which word is this? (a) flower (b) flowar (c) flowor
- 24.🚗 c_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er
- 25.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) burger (b) popcorn (c) spider
- 26.🐯 Which word is this? (a) tiger (b) tigar (c) tigor
- 27.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) jar (b) first (c) popcorn
- 28.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) shark (b) bird (c) unicorn
- 29.🍿 popc_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
- 30.🎯 d_ _t — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) or (c) ar
- 31.⭐ Which word is this? (a) stor (b) star (c) ster
- 32.🌸 flow_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) er (c) ar
- 33.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) shark (b) torch (c) third
- 34.🍴 Which word is this? (a) fark (b) firk (c) fork
- 35.🥇 f_ _st — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
- 36.🧶 Which word is this? (a) yorn (b) yern (c) yarn
- 37.👧 Which word is this? (a) gorl (b) garl (c) girl
- 38.🥇 Which word is this? (a) first (b) farst (c) forst
- 39.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicorn (b) unicurn (c) unicarn
- 40.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) flower (b) unicorn (c) jar
Answer key
- scarf
- or
- hammer
- ur
- burger
- fork
- torch
- car
- corn
- turtle
- star
- ar
- girl
- dart
- popcorn
- computer
- ir
- spider
- spider
- car
- ar
- guitar
- flower
- ar
- burger
- tiger
- first
- unicorn
- or
- ar
- star
- er
- shark
- fork
- ir
- yarn
- girl
- first
- unicorn
- jar
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