2nd Grade Bossy R (r-controlled vowels) Worksheets
36 printable 2nd Grade phonics worksheets on Bossy R (r-controlled vowels). Every sheet has an answer key — 36 in all. 7 activity types: Build, Find And Color, Flashcards, Roll And Read. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: dark to worn; Bossy R; vet to porch; scarf, horse, corn and star; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 2 to 35 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 2.
What is in this set: Roll And Read (6), Sort And Write (6), Word Hunt (6), Find And Color (5), Flashcards (5), Word Chain (5) and Build (3).
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 2, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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Includes 7 activity types: Build, Find And Color, Flashcards, Roll And Read, Sort And Write, Word Chain, Word Hunt.
All 36 worksheets in this set
- Word Chain 1: dark to worn Free PDF
- Word Hunt 1: Bossy R Free PDF
- Roll And Read 1: Bossy R Free PDF
- Flashcards 1: Bossy R
- Word Chain 2: vet to porch
- Find And Color 1: Bossy R
- Word Hunt 2: Bossy R
- Sort And Write 1: Bossy R
- Flashcards 2: Bossy R
- Roll And Read 2: Bossy R
- Build 1: scarf, horse, corn and star
- Word Chain 3: shake to nap
- Find And Color 2: Bossy R
- Sort And Write 2: Bossy R
- Word Chain 4: farm to corn
- Word Hunt 3: Bossy R
- Roll And Read 3: Bossy R
- Flashcards 3: Bossy R
- Word Hunt 4: Bossy R
- Roll And Read 4: Bossy R
- Find And Color 3: Bossy R
- Find And Color 4: Bossy R
- Sort And Write 3: Bossy R
- Flashcards 4: Bossy R
- Sort And Write 4: Bossy R
- Build 2: star, fork, spider and scarf
- Word Chain 5: arm to on
- Word Hunt 5: Bossy R
- Word Hunt 6: Bossy R
- Roll And Read 5: Bossy R
- Find And Color 5: Bossy R
- Roll And Read 6: Bossy R
- Sort And Write 5: Bossy R
- Flashcards 5: Bossy R
- Sort And Write 6: Bossy R
- Build 3: ladder, corn, horse and fork
Teaching Bossy R (r-controlled vowels)
What it is
Bossy R, or r-controlled vowels, means an r after a vowel changes the vowel's sound: car, her, bird, fork, hurt. The vowel is neither short nor long; the r takes charge. In Grade 2 the set is review: words with ar, or and er sorted by team, then read in word chains, word hunts and roll-and-read games.
When a child is ready
Teach it after short vowels and magic e are secure, because r-controlled words break the rules the child has just learned.
If they struggle
If the child reads car as ca-r with a short a, teach the vowel and r as one team that is read together (ar, or, er, ir, ur). Sort words by team, then read them. er, ir, and ur usually share one sound, so group those three.
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