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Phonics lesson 21: R-controlled vowels · Set 701 · 40 questions
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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. 1.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) flower (b) popcorn (c) guitar
  2. 2.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) car (b) unicorn (c) burger
  3. 3.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) dart (b) purple (c) circle
  4. 4.🍴 Which word is this? (a) furk (b) fork (c) fark
  5. 5.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) first (b) purple (c) star
  6. 6.🌸 Which word is this? (a) flowor (b) flower (c) flowar
  7. 7.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) popcorn (b) hammer (c) star
  8. 8.🐢 Which word is this? (a) turtle (b) tortle (c) tartle
  9. 9.🍿 Which word is this? (a) popcirn (b) popcarn (c) popcorn
  10. 10.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) popcorn (b) circus (c) scarf
  11. 11.🔦 Which word is this? (a) tarch (b) torch (c) turch
  12. 12.🌽 c_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
  13. 13.🎪 Which word is this? (a) circus (b) corcus (c) carcus
  14. 14.🔨 Which word is this? (a) hammer (b) hammar (c) hammor
  15. 15.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) burger (b) star (c) girl
  16. 16.🪜 ladd_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
  17. 17.📄 pap_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
  18. 18.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) corn (b) computer (c) circus
  19. 19.🐦 b_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ir
  20. 20.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) first (b) popcorn (c) computer
  21. 21.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) turtle (b) tiger (c) shark
  22. 22.🥉 Which word is this? (a) thard (b) third (c) thord
  23. 23.🥇 Which word is this? (a) forst (b) first (c) farst
  24. 24.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicorn (b) unicarn (c) unicern
  25. 25.⭕ c_ _cle — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
  26. 26.🍔 Which word is this? (a) burger (b) barger (c) borger
  27. 27.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) circle (b) ladder (c) unicorn
  28. 28.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) star (b) turtle (c) fork
  29. 29.🐯 Which word is this? (a) tiger (b) tigar (c) tigor
  30. 30.🚗 Which word is this? (a) cer (b) cor (c) car
  31. 31.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) turkey (b) unicorn (c) shark
  32. 32.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) paper (b) unicorn (c) turkey
  33. 33.🐦 Which word is this? (a) bord (b) bird (c) bard
  34. 34.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) turkey (b) flower (c) torch
  35. 35.🦃 Which word is this? (a) tarkey (b) torkey (c) turkey
  36. 36.🥇 f_ _st — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
  37. 37.👧 g_ _l — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
  38. 38.🧶 y_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) ar (c) or
  39. 39.🎪 c_ _cus — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
  40. 40.🌡️ Which word is this? (a) thormometer (b) thermometer (c) tharmometer

Answer key

  1. guitar
  2. burger
  3. dart
  4. fork
  5. purple
  6. flower
  7. hammer
  8. turtle
  9. popcorn
  10. circus
  11. torch
  12. or
  13. circus
  14. hammer
  15. girl
  16. er
  17. er
  18. computer
  19. ir
  20. popcorn
  21. turtle
  22. third
  23. first
  24. unicorn
  25. ir
  26. burger
  27. circle
  28. star
  29. tiger
  30. car
  31. shark
  32. turkey
  33. bird
  34. flower
  35. turkey
  36. ir
  37. ir
  38. ar
  39. ir
  40. thermometer

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