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.🎯 d_ _t — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ur
- 2.🦃 Which word is this? (a) turkey (b) torkey (c) tarkey
- 3.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) bird (b) butter (c) burger
- 4.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) jar (b) torch (c) first
- 5.👧 Which word is this? (a) garl (b) girl (c) gorl
- 6.🦃 t_ _key — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
- 7.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) flower (b) torch (c) circus
- 8.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicorn (b) unicern (c) unicarn
- 9.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) star (b) thermometer (c) circle
- 10.🟣 Which word is this? (a) parple (b) purple (c) porple
- 11.🍴 f_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) or (c) ar
- 12.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) turkey (b) flower (c) popcorn
- 13.🎪 Which word is this? (a) corcus (b) carcus (c) circus
- 14.⭐ st_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er
- 15.🐢 Which word is this? (a) turtle (b) tartle (c) tortle
- 16.🔦 Which word is this? (a) tarch (b) turch (c) torch
- 17.🪜 ladd_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 18.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) turkey (b) fork (c) bird
- 19.🔨 hamm_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er
- 20.🍿 Which word is this? (a) popcorn (b) popcirn (c) popcarn
- 21.🍴 Which word is this? (a) fark (b) ferk (c) fork
- 22.🥉 Which word is this? (a) third (b) thard (c) thord
- 23.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) spider (b) scarf (c) first
- 24.🕷️ spid_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 25.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) computer (b) purple (c) torch
- 26.🥉 th_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
- 27.🌽 Which word is this? (a) corn (b) carn (c) curn
- 28.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) fork (b) paper (c) purple
- 29.🥇 Which word is this? (a) forst (b) first (c) farst
- 30.🧈 Which word is this? (a) butter (b) buttor (c) buttar
- 31.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) star (b) popcorn (c) turtle
- 32.🪜 Which word is this? (a) laddor (b) laddar (c) ladder
- 33.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) thermometer (b) shark (c) fork
- 34.🍿 popc_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ur (c) or
- 35.🌸 Which word is this? (a) flowar (b) flower (c) flowor
- 36.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) fork (b) purple (c) bird
- 37.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) circle (b) fork (c) turtle
- 38.🎸 Which word is this? (a) guitar (b) guitor (c) guitur
- 39.💻 Which word is this? (a) computar (b) computor (c) computer
- 40.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) ladder (b) unicorn (c) star
Answer key
- ar
- turkey
- burger
- torch
- girl
- ur
- circus
- unicorn
- circle
- purple
- or
- turkey
- circus
- ar
- turtle
- torch
- er
- bird
- er
- popcorn
- fork
- third
- first
- er
- computer
- ir
- corn
- fork
- first
- butter
- popcorn
- ladder
- shark
- or
- flower
- purple
- turtle
- guitar
- computer
- unicorn
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