Free printable r-controlled — or phonics worksheets. Four practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, and rapid naming chart.
Grade: 1st-2ndPhase 4: Vowel Teams & AdvancedPattern: OR r-controlled vowel
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1 Decodable Reading Passage
A short, decodable story embedding r-controlled — or words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.
Ron's Big Storm
Skill: R-Controlled — OR • Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be
Coloring page included in PDF
Ron went to the store for his horse, Storm. He needed to get more corn. Storm was born on the north side of the land, and he was fond of corn. Ron saw the corn he wanted, but it was on a tall shelf. It was too short a shelf for a man, but too tall for Ron.
“Oh no,” Ron said. “How can I get the corn for Storm?”
He looked around. He saw a thick, short crate. It looked like a little fort. Ron had a plan. He pushed the crate and stood on top of it. He grabbed a long stick from a bin. He used the stick to poke the bag of corn. It fell down!
“I got it, Storm!” he said. Storm gave a glad snort.
Circle or highlight all the OR 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
for
born
corn
fork
fort
horn
port
sort
torn
worn
corz
jorz
vorz
korz
rorz
horz
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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 for on born
a born in corn
the corn and fork
a fork with fort
the fort on horn
a horn in port
the port and sort
a sort with torn
the torn on worn
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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 — OR
fort
snort
for
more
snort
fort
for
more
for
snort
torn
more
for
torn
fort
torn
Target words: for, fort, torn, snort, more
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5 Word Search
Find and circle the r-controlled — or words hidden in the grid. Words go across, down, and diagonally — a fun way to reinforce r-controlled — or word recognition.
R-Controlled — OR Word Search
F
S
R
K
W
N
C
T
W
L
S
O
M
P
O
R
T
O
S
L
T
P
R
R
A
S
Z
T
R
Z
O
Q
O
T
H
H
H
Z
J
N
R
A
W
R
V
O
M
O
E
J
N
W
O
L
T
G
R
F
R
G
B
Z
R
X
D
Z
G
N
O
T
K
G
N
A
V
S
O
R
T
R
O
G
J
I
I
O
X
C
O
S
B
O
R
N
D
X
F
O
R
K
BORNCORNFORFORKFORTHORNPORTSHORTSORTSPORTTORNWORN
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📖 Decodable Readers for R-Controlled — OR
Next step: once your child can sound out these words, have them read a matching decodable mini-book. Each R-Controlled — OR reader is a printable story + coloring page using only sounds they've learned.
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.
