Free printable r-controlled — ar phonics worksheets. Four practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, and rapid naming chart.
Grade: 1st-2ndPhase 4: Vowel Teams & AdvancedPattern: AR r-controlled vowel
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1 Decodable Reading Passage
A short, decodable story embedding r-controlled — ar words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.
Pam's Farm Cart
Skill: R-Controlled — AR • Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be
Coloring page included in PDF
Pam went to the farm mart with her dad. Pam wanted to help him carry things. "I will pull the large red cart," she said. Her dad smiled. The cart was not hard to pull on the path. Dad got a big jar of red jam. "This is a fine tart jam," he said. He held the large jar in his arm so it would not fall. Pam and her dad went past the big red shed. They started for their car. Pam was a big help. The cart was a fun part of the trip.
Circle or highlight all the AR r-controlled words in the story above. How many did you find?
Cut out the word cards and sort them into the correct columns: Real Words vs Nonsense Words.
Real Words
Nonsense Words
car
far
jar
bar
scar
star
arm
farm
harm
charm
varz
darz
rarz
sarz
marz
farz
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3 Phrasing Practice Cards
Practice reading these phrases for fluency. Cut out the cards and read them quickly and smoothly.
the car on far
a far in jar
the jar and bar
a bar with scar
the scar on star
a star in arm
the arm and farm
a farm with harm
the harm on charm
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4 RAN Chart (Rapid Naming)
Read each word in the grid as quickly as you can. Time yourself and try to beat your best time!
Decodable RAN Chart — R-Controlled — AR
harm
scar
hard
car
scar
scar
harm
dart
hard
dart
car
car
dart
car
harm
hard
Target words: car, scar, harm, dart, hard
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5 Word Search
Find and circle the r-controlled — ar words hidden in the grid. Words go across, down, and diagonally — a fun way to reinforce r-controlled — ar word recognition.
R-Controlled — AR Word Search
C
E
M
A
R
T
K
L
I
A
J
A
Z
J
J
D
F
A
R
M
F
A
R
C
Y
G
A
U
B
R
Q
M
H
M
A
J
H
C
H
B
J
D
H
A
S
R
A
A
W
A
V
V
B
M
R
M
T
R
Q
R
T
S
T
A
R
M
S
C
A
R
C
H
A
R
M
Y
C
F
A
R
X
H
K
O
N
Z
O
J
N
H
D
W
S
T
L
Y
G
O
V
Q
ARMARTBARCARCARTCHARMFARFARMHARMJARSCARSTAR
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📖 Decodable Readers for R-Controlled — AR
Next step: once your child can sound out these words, have them read a matching decodable mini-book. Each R-Controlled — AR reader is a printable story + coloring page using only sounds they've learned.
These free r-controlled (ar) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the AR r-controlled vowel. Activities include a decodable passage embedding target words in a fun story, a word sort activity to distinguish real and nonsense words, phrasing practice cards for fluency building, and a rapid naming (RAN) chart for automaticity. Each worksheet prints cleanly on standard US Letter paper.
