R-Controlled Vowels Phonics Worksheets

Phonics lesson 21: R-controlled vowels · Set 885 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.🐢 Which word is this? (a) tartle (b) tortle (c) turtle
2. 2.🌸 Which word is this? (a) flowar (b) flowor (c) flower
3. 3.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) corn (b) guitar (c) thermometer
4. 4.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) turtle (b) circle (c) guitar
5. 5.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) fork (b) butter (c) guitar
6. 6.🐯 Which word is this? (a) tiger (b) tigor (c) tigar
7. 7.🚗 c_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
8. 8.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) computer (b) shark (c) first
9. 9.🟣 p_ _ple — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) or (c) ar
10. 10.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) car (b) corn (c) flower
11. 11.🔦 t_ _ch — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) or (c) ar
12. 12.🐢 t_ _tle — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ur (c) or
13. 13.📄 pap_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) er (c) ar
14. 14.🎯 Which word is this? (a) dart (b) durt (c) dort
15. 15.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) turtle (b) spider (c) star
16. 16.🧣 sc_ _f — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
17. 17.🥇 Which word is this? (a) forst (b) first (c) farst
18. 18.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) turkey (b) fork (c) first
19. 19.🎸 Which word is this? (a) guiter (b) guitor (c) guitar
20. 20.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) turtle (b) shark (c) tiger
21. 21.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) girl (b) purple (c) yarn
22. 22.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) purple (b) popcorn (c) computer
23. 23.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) turtle (b) thermometer (c) fork
24. 24.🍴 Which word is this? (a) ferk (b) fark (c) fork
25. 25.🍴 f_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) er (c) ar
26. 26.🎪 Which word is this? (a) circus (b) carcus (c) corcus
27. 27.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) unicorn (b) girl (c) jar
28. 28.🍔 Which word is this? (a) barger (b) burger (c) borger
29. 29.🍿 popc_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ir
30. 30.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) butter (b) dart (c) girl
31. 31.🧈 butt_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) ar (c) or
32. 32.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) thermometer (b) first (c) torch
33. 33.🦃 Which word is this? (a) torkey (b) tarkey (c) turkey
34. 34.👧 Which word is this? (a) girl (b) gorl (c) garl
35. 35.🫙 Which word is this? (a) jor (b) jar (c) jir
36. 36.⭕ c_ _cle — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
37. 37.🌸 flow_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) ar (c) or
38. 38.🔦 Which word is this? (a) torch (b) tarch (c) terch
39. 39.🌡️ Which word is this? (a) tharmometer (b) thermometer (c) thormometer
40. 40.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) circle (b) flower (c) star

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