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) turtle (b) circus (c) car
- 2.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) computer (b) corn (c) circus
- 3.🥉 Which word is this? (a) thard (b) third (c) thord
- 4.🦄 unic_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) or (c) ar
- 5.🎯 d_ _t — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ur
- 6.🧶 y_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ir (c) ar
- 7.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) popcorn (b) turkey (c) circle
- 8.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) turkey (b) bird (c) guitar
- 9.🔦 t_ _ch — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ur
- 10.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) car (b) first (c) unicorn
- 11.🎪 Which word is this? (a) carcus (b) circus (c) corcus
- 12.🌸 Which word is this? (a) flowar (b) flower (c) flowor
- 13.🍔 Which word is this? (a) barger (b) borger (c) burger
- 14.👧 g_ _l — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ir (c) ar
- 15.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) turkey (b) computer (c) third
- 16.🥇 f_ _st — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) ar (c) or
- 17.⭐ Which word is this? (a) stor (b) ster (c) star
- 18.⭐ st_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ir
- 19.🟣 p_ _ple — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) ar (c) or
- 20.🔨 hamm_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) or (c) ar
- 21.🌡️ Which word is this? (a) thormometer (b) tharmometer (c) thermometer
- 22.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) girl (b) scarf (c) flower
- 23.🦈 Which word is this? (a) shark (b) shork (c) shirk
- 24.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) thermometer (b) dart (c) purple
- 25.🔦 Which word is this? (a) tarch (b) terch (c) torch
- 26.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) popcorn (b) burger (c) scarf
- 27.💻 comput_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) ar (c) or
- 28.🚗 Which word is this? (a) car (b) cor (c) cur
- 29.🍴 Which word is this? (a) furk (b) fark (c) fork
- 30.🐦 b_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) ar (c) or
- 31.🐦 Which word is this? (a) bird (b) bard (c) bord
- 32.🐯 Which word is this? (a) tigor (b) tiger (c) tigar
- 33.🌽 Which word is this? (a) carn (b) cern (c) corn
- 34.🎪 c_ _cus — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
- 35.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) car (b) fork (c) circle
- 36.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) dart (b) fork (c) third
- 37.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicorn (b) unicirn (c) unicarn
- 38.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) popcorn (b) star (c) spider
- 39.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) spider (b) car (c) corn
- 40.🍴 f_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) ar (c) or
Answer key
- circus
- corn
- third
- or
- ar
- ar
- popcorn
- bird
- or
- unicorn
- circus
- flower
- burger
- ir
- computer
- ir
- star
- ar
- ur
- er
- thermometer
- girl
- shark
- purple
- torch
- scarf
- er
- car
- fork
- ir
- bird
- tiger
- corn
- ir
- fork
- third
- unicorn
- spider
- car
- or
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