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 “er”? (a) paper (b) third (c) popcorn
- 2.🦃 Which word is this? (a) torkey (b) turkey (c) tarkey
- 3.🧈 butt_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 4.🚗 Which word is this? (a) cor (b) car (c) cir
- 5.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) purple (b) shark (c) first
- 6.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) torch (b) dart (c) tiger
- 7.👧 Which word is this? (a) girl (b) garl (c) gorl
- 8.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) star (b) unicorn (c) paper
- 9.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) paper (b) shark (c) burger
- 10.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) thermometer (b) turtle (c) fork
- 11.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) car (b) circle (c) torch
- 12.🎪 c_ _cus — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
- 13.🧣 Which word is this? (a) scurf (b) scorf (c) scarf
- 14.🎯 d_ _t — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ur (c) or
- 15.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) corn (b) third (c) burger
- 16.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) circus (b) turkey (c) hammer
- 17.🍴 Which word is this? (a) fark (b) firk (c) fork
- 18.🟣 p_ _ple — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) ur
- 19.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) scarf (b) corn (c) circle
- 20.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) unicorn (b) guitar (c) spider
- 21.🌽 c_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) or (c) ar
- 22.🌸 Which word is this? (a) flowar (b) flower (c) flowor
- 23.⭐ Which word is this? (a) stor (b) stir (c) star
- 24.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) tiger (b) turtle (c) scarf
- 25.🦃 t_ _key — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) ar (c) or
- 26.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) purple (b) fork (c) paper
- 27.🌽 Which word is this? (a) cirn (b) corn (c) carn
- 28.🦄 Which word is this? (a) unicirn (b) unicorn (c) unicarn
- 29.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) girl (b) hammer (c) unicorn
- 30.🍴 f_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
- 31.🧶 y_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) er (c) ar
- 32.🔨 hamm_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) er (b) ar (c) or
- 33.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) turtle (b) fork (c) hammer
- 34.🎪 Which word is this? (a) corcus (b) carcus (c) circus
- 35.🕷️ Which word is this? (a) spidar (b) spidor (c) spider
- 36.🦈 sh_ _k — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) ar (c) or
- 37.🐦 Which word is this? (a) bard (b) bord (c) bird
- 38.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) tiger (b) jar (c) bird
- 39.👧 g_ _l — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) or (c) ar
- 40.🪜 ladd_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) er (c) or
Answer key
- paper
- turkey
- er
- car
- shark
- dart
- girl
- star
- burger
- thermometer
- torch
- ir
- scarf
- ar
- corn
- turkey
- fork
- ur
- circle
- unicorn
- or
- flower
- star
- tiger
- ur
- fork
- corn
- unicorn
- girl
- or
- ar
- er
- hammer
- circus
- spider
- ar
- bird
- bird
- ir
- er
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