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) unicern (b) unicorn (c) unicarn
- 2.🌸 Which word is this? (a) flower (b) flowar (c) flowor
- 3.🎸 guit_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ir (c) ar
- 4.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) dart (b) spider (c) turtle
- 5.🧣 Which word is this? (a) scirf (b) scorf (c) scarf
- 6.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) burger (b) circus (c) guitar
- 7.👧 g_ _l — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
- 8.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) girl (b) paper (c) purple
- 9.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) corn (b) tiger (c) turkey
- 10.🍴 Which word is this? (a) fork (b) firk (c) fark
- 11.🟣 p_ _ple — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) ar (c) or
- 12.🟣 Which word is this? (a) purple (b) parple (c) porple
- 13.🔦 t_ _ch — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ir (c) ar
- 14.🦃 Which word is this? (a) tarkey (b) torkey (c) turkey
- 15.🦈 sh_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ir (c) ar
- 16.⭐ Which word is this? (a) stur (b) star (c) stor
- 17.🚗 c_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) or (c) ar
- 18.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) bird (b) tiger (c) unicorn
- 19.🐦 b_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
- 20.🧣 sc_ _f — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) ar (c) or
- 21.🫙 j_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) or (c) ar
- 22.🚗 Which word is this? (a) car (b) cur (c) cor
- 23.🎪 Which word is this? (a) circus (b) corcus (c) carcus
- 24.🦃 t_ _key — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) ar (c) or
- 25.🐯 tig_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er
- 26.🍔 Which word is this? (a) borger (b) burger (c) barger
- 27.🌡️ th_ _mometer — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 28.🌽 Which word is this? (a) carn (b) curn (c) corn
- 29.🐢 Which word is this? (a) tortle (b) turtle (c) tartle
- 30.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) turtle (b) dart (c) girl
- 31.🐦 Which word is this? (a) bard (b) bird (c) bord
- 32.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) turkey (b) torch (c) shark
- 33.🍿 Which word is this? (a) popcern (b) popcarn (c) popcorn
- 34.💻 Which word is this? (a) computer (b) computar (c) computor
- 35.🌸 flow_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 36.🦄 unic_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 37.🐢 t_ _tle — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) ar (c) or
- 38.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) yarn (b) first (c) turtle
- 39.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) third (b) burger (c) scarf
- 40.🍴 f_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) or (c) ar
Answer key
- unicorn
- flower
- ar
- turtle
- scarf
- circus
- ir
- purple
- tiger
- fork
- ur
- purple
- or
- turkey
- ar
- star
- ar
- unicorn
- ir
- ar
- ar
- car
- circus
- ur
- er
- burger
- er
- corn
- turtle
- dart
- bird
- shark
- popcorn
- computer
- er
- or
- ur
- first
- burger
- or
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