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