Free printable r-controlled — ir phonics worksheets. Five practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, rapid naming chart, and word search.
A free illustrated mini-book for R-Controlled — IR, plus the same story as a passage sheet for highlighting.
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When the sun went down, Viv woke up from her nap. It was time to go out and look around. She had on her new cape. It was pink with white dots, and it made a swirl when she spun.
At the top of the hill stood a tall fir with a long vine that came all the way down to the dirt. Viv gave the vine a firm tug. It held! She grabbed it and started to twirl. Round and round she whirled, and her cape made a big pink swirl. "Ron, look at me!" she yelled to her pal up in the fir.
Then Viv stopped with a jolt. Her cape was wrapped in the vine, and she was stuck! Ron flew down and gave her a tug. He tugged again, but she only got more stuck. "Stop, Ron!" said Viv. "That is not helping!"
Viv held still and thought. "I spun to the right," she said, "so I must spin back the other way." She kicked off the trunk and twirled back. Bit by bit, the vine came off. At last her cape slipped out, and Viv dropped into the dirt with a plop.
She sat up and laughed. "Your cape is a mess," said Ron with a smirk. "Yes, but I got myself out!" said Viv. Then the two pals went to the pond, because all that twirling had made Viv very thirsty.
er, ir and ur all say the same sound, /er/, as in her, bird and fur.
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The words this story set practices, in the two groups used by the word sort.
bird, dirt, fir, firm, first, girl, sir, stir, third, swirl
zir, jirt, virm, dirp, nirb, flird
ER, IR and UR words to read, match and write, with pictures. Each PDF has its answer key on page 2.
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4 ready-to-print PDFs for this story's r-controlled — ir words. Each one opens as its own file.
Cut-apart word cards to sort: Real Words or Nonsense Words. Answer key on page 2.
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A new decodable story with the same r-controlled — ir sounds — each comes with its own set of worksheets.
These free r-controlled (ir) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the IR 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.
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