r Controlled Vowels Worksheets

As your kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade continue working on phonics skills to improve reading and spelling they will encounter the bossy r. These bossy r worksheets are simple, free printable cut and paste worksheets that are a great way for kids to practice listening for bossy r in words. Simply print pdf file with r controlled vowels worksheets and you are ready to learn with r controlled worksheets.

R controlled vowels worksheets

Have you ever heard of a bossy r? Maybe you have seen a picture of “a” and “r” together with the “r” scowling at the “a”. What these pictures are trying to get at, is that the r is controlling the vowel. In other words, you really do not hear the vowel you hear the “r” sound. These r-controlled vowels can be quite difficult to spell, and often need lots of practice. And that is what this cut and paste activity is all about. Use these r controlled vowels worksheets to help kindergartners and grade 1 students improve spelling and reading ar, ir, or, ur, er sounds.

Bossy r worksheets

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<. The r-controlled vowels worksheet pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

R Controlled Vowels

The students get to do most of the work with these free r controlled vowel worksheets. It is almost a no-prep activity.

1. First, print of the r-controlled vowels worksheets 1st grade free page you want your child or children to use.
2. Next, print off page six. Then cut them into strips. One strip is needed per page used.
3. Finally, gather up some glue and scissors and you are ready to go with these r-controlled vowels worksheets pdf

R controlled vowels worksheet

These r-controlled vowels worksheets help 1st graders work on this sound that is very tricky to spell. And while there isn’t much help we can give our children in figuring out what vowels to use, these ideas may help them some.

Did you know that “er”, “ir” and “ur” make exact same sound?

Yep, they do. Look at words like her, fir, and fur. Yes, they all have the exact sound in them. Expect for reading lots of r-controlled vowels and lots of practice spelling them, there isn’t a fast rule that will help.

But knowing the frequency of use may help some. Did you know that when the “er” sound is made, the letters “er” are used most often? Fairly frequent use of the “er” sound is “ir”, and the least frequent use is “ur”.

Ar Sound

The good news is that the letters “ar” and “ur” do not always make the same sound. This makes them a little easier to teach to our children and can help them learn how to spell these words. Think of words like “car” and “farmer” compared to “for” and “hornet”. They sound different and teaching this to our little ones can help them spell these tricky r-controlled vowels a little easier.

Spelling with correctly require a lot of practice. And I hope your these r controlled worksheets help make it fun too!