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 is this? (a) purple (b) porple (c) parple
- 2.🍴 f_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ir
- 3.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) shark (b) burger (c) first
- 4.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) girl (b) turtle (c) thermometer
- 5.🔦 Which word is this? (a) torch (b) tirch (c) tarch
- 6.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) shark (b) unicorn (c) turtle
- 7.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) popcorn (b) paper (c) guitar
- 8.🧶 y_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ir
- 9.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) car (b) corn (c) circus
- 10.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) torch (b) shark (c) circle
- 11.⭕ c_ _cle — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
- 12.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) torch (b) purple (c) star
- 13.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) jar (b) corn (c) spider
- 14.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) circle (b) jar (c) unicorn
- 15.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) spider (b) torch (c) burger
- 16.🍔 Which word is this? (a) borger (b) barger (c) burger
- 17.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) scarf (b) butter (c) fork
- 18.🌽 Which word is this? (a) corn (b) cirn (c) carn
- 19.🍴 Which word is this? (a) ferk (b) fork (c) fark
- 20.🔨 Which word is this? (a) hammor (b) hammer (c) hammar
- 21.🍔 b_ _ger — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) or (c) ar
- 22.🌡️ Which word is this? (a) tharmometer (b) thormometer (c) thermometer
- 23.🧣 sc_ _f — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
- 24.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) turkey (b) torch (c) circus
- 25.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) spider (b) purple (c) first
- 26.🚗 c_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
- 27.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) dart (b) popcorn (c) hammer
- 28.🐦 Which word is this? (a) bard (b) bird (c) bord
- 29.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) circus (b) dart (c) purple
- 30.🎸 guit_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) or (c) ar
- 31.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) torch (b) circus (c) purple
- 32.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) tiger (b) corn (c) burger
- 33.🐢 t_ _tle — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ur (c) or
- 34.🐢 Which word is this? (a) tartle (b) tortle (c) turtle
- 35.🎪 c_ _cus — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
- 36.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) third (b) tiger (c) dart
- 37.📄 pap_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 38.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicorn (b) unicarn (c) unicurn
- 39.⭕ Which word is this? (a) carcle (b) circle (c) corcle
- 40.🍿 popc_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
Answer key
- purple
- or
- shark
- thermometer
- torch
- unicorn
- guitar
- ar
- car
- circle
- ir
- star
- spider
- jar
- torch
- burger
- scarf
- corn
- fork
- hammer
- ur
- thermometer
- ar
- turkey
- first
- ar
- popcorn
- bird
- circus
- ar
- purple
- burger
- ur
- turtle
- ir
- third
- er
- unicorn
- circle
- or
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