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 “ir”? (a) corn (b) purple (c) girl
- 2.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) jar (b) unicorn (c) hammer
- 3.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) flower (b) circus (c) scarf
- 4.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) popcorn (b) dart (c) third
- 5.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) girl (b) butter (c) corn
- 6.🌡️ Which word is this? (a) thermometer (b) tharmometer (c) thormometer
- 7.🟣 Which word is this? (a) purple (b) parple (c) porple
- 8.🚗 c_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) ar (c) or
- 9.🐢 t_ _tle — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ur
- 10.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicurn (b) unicorn (c) unicarn
- 11.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) scarf (b) purple (c) unicorn
- 12.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) circus (b) popcorn (c) car
- 13.👧 Which word is this? (a) gorl (b) girl (c) garl
- 14.🌽 Which word is this? (a) carn (b) cirn (c) corn
- 15.🎯 d_ _t — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) or (c) ar
- 16.🪜 Which word is this? (a) laddor (b) ladder (c) laddar
- 17.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) butter (b) purple (c) torch
- 18.⭐ Which word is this? (a) stur (b) star (c) stor
- 19.🍔 Which word is this? (a) borger (b) barger (c) burger
- 20.🎸 guit_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) er (c) ar
- 21.🎯 Which word is this? (a) dart (b) dort (c) dirt
- 22.🌽 c_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ur (c) or
- 23.🐦 Which word is this? (a) bard (b) bird (c) bord
- 24.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) computer (b) bird (c) fork
- 25.🐢 Which word is this? (a) tortle (b) tartle (c) turtle
- 26.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) spider (b) jar (c) bird
- 27.🫙 j_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) or (c) ar
- 28.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) corn (b) turtle (c) dart
- 29.🧶 Which word is this? (a) yurn (b) yorn (c) yarn
- 30.🥉 Which word is this? (a) thard (b) thord (c) third
- 31.🦃 Which word is this? (a) turkey (b) torkey (c) tarkey
- 32.🧣 Which word is this? (a) scurf (b) scorf (c) scarf
- 33.🦄 unic_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ur (c) or
- 34.🟣 p_ _ple — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) or (c) ar
- 35.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) turtle (b) butter (c) yarn
- 36.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) fork (b) ladder (c) purple
- 37.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) car (b) bird (c) flower
- 38.🐦 b_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ir
- 39.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) unicorn (b) jar (c) third
- 40.🐯 Which word is this? (a) tiger (b) tigor (c) tigar
Answer key
- girl
- jar
- scarf
- popcorn
- corn
- thermometer
- purple
- ar
- ur
- unicorn
- purple
- circus
- girl
- corn
- ar
- ladder
- torch
- star
- burger
- ar
- dart
- or
- bird
- fork
- turtle
- spider
- ar
- turtle
- yarn
- third
- turkey
- scarf
- or
- ur
- butter
- ladder
- flower
- ir
- unicorn
- tiger
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