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) torch (b) turch (c) tarch
- 2.🟣 Which word is this? (a) purple (b) porple (c) parple
- 3.🫙 j_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) or (c) ar
- 4.🐯 Which word is this? (a) tigar (b) tiger (c) tigor
- 5.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) unicorn (b) girl (c) star
- 6.🪜 ladd_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er
- 7.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) scarf (b) spider (c) fork
- 8.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) fork (b) shark (c) paper
- 9.🍴 Which word is this? (a) furk (b) fork (c) fark
- 10.🍔 b_ _ger — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ur (c) or
- 11.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) bird (b) fork (c) scarf
- 12.🥉 Which word is this? (a) thard (b) third (c) thord
- 13.🍔 Which word is this? (a) barger (b) borger (c) burger
- 14.🎸 guit_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er
- 15.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) corn (b) purple (c) first
- 16.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) burger (b) guitar (c) thermometer
- 17.📄 Which word is this? (a) papar (b) papor (c) paper
- 18.🌡️ Which word is this? (a) thermometer (b) thormometer (c) tharmometer
- 19.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicorn (b) unicarn (c) unicern
- 20.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) girl (b) popcorn (c) paper
- 21.🎪 Which word is this? (a) carcus (b) circus (c) corcus
- 22.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) ladder (b) yarn (c) turkey
- 23.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) fork (b) turkey (c) third
- 24.🦈 Which word is this? (a) shirk (b) shork (c) shark
- 25.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) turtle (b) first (c) car
- 26.🕷️ Which word is this? (a) spidor (b) spidar (c) spider
- 27.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) third (b) turkey (c) paper
- 28.🐯 tig_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 29.🥇 Which word is this? (a) forst (b) farst (c) first
- 30.🥇 f_ _st — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ir
- 31.⭐ Which word is this? (a) star (b) ster (c) stor
- 32.🚗 Which word is this? (a) cir (b) car (c) cor
- 33.🚗 c_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ur
- 34.🐢 Which word is this? (a) tortle (b) tartle (c) turtle
- 35.🔦 t_ _ch — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
- 36.💻 comput_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 37.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) fork (b) turkey (c) spider
- 38.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) fork (b) car (c) ladder
- 39.⭐ st_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) er (c) ar
- 40.🐦 Which word is this? (a) bird (b) bard (c) bord
Answer key
- torch
- purple
- ar
- tiger
- star
- er
- scarf
- shark
- fork
- ur
- bird
- third
- burger
- ar
- corn
- guitar
- paper
- thermometer
- unicorn
- popcorn
- circus
- turkey
- third
- shark
- turtle
- spider
- paper
- er
- first
- ir
- star
- car
- ar
- turtle
- or
- er
- fork
- car
- ar
- bird
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