Free printable r-controlled — or 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 — OR, plus the same story as a passage sheet for highlighting.
A full-color picture book your student reads on their own. Skill: R-Controlled — OR. Print, cut and staple.
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Deb the skunk was always glad to dig. One day she got a bag of corn from the store. She dug a short line of little holes on the north side of her home and put the corn in. A tall stone wall stood there, and its shade fell on that spot. Her pal Jade had corn on the south side of the same wall, where the sun was hot.
Deb checked her corn each day, but it was still thin and small. Jade's corn grew tall and green. Soon it was as tall as Jade!
Deb let out a sad snort. "Why is my corn so short?" she said. Jade looked at the wall, then up at the sun. "Your corn is in the shade," said Jade. "Corn needs a lot of sun to grow."
Deb grabbed her old, worn fork. She dug up her corn and carried it to the south side. She set it in the sun by Jade's corn. Jade was a good sport and helped her.
Now the sun was warm on Deb's corn all day. It grew and grew. One day Deb stood by it and had to look up. "Look, Jade!" said Deb with a big grin. "My corn is tall, and I am small!"
"Now you know where corn likes to grow," said Jade.
When o is followed by r, it says /or/. At the end of a word it is often spelled ore.
Print it full size for the wall, or smaller for a phonics notebook.
The words this story set practices, in the two groups used by the word sort.
for, born, corn, fork, fort, horn, port, sort, torn, worn
zor, jorp, vort, dorn, gork, florb
AR and OR words to read, match and write, with pictures. Each PDF has its answer key on page 2.
The sheets above are free. The pack is every sheet for every Level 4 spelling in order: the long vowel teams with ei and eigh, oo, oe and ui, au, aw, ough and augh, ar, or, er, ir, ur, air, ear, eer and wor, oi and both sounds of ou, the silent letters and ch, a review set and all the answer keys, ready to print.
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4 ready-to-print PDFs for this story's r-controlled — or 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 — or sounds — each comes with its own set of worksheets.
These free r-controlled (or) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the OR 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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