R-controlled air and ear sounds worksheets
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R bends the vowel in front of it. Air, are, and ear can all say the air sound (chair, care, bear); eer, ere, and ear can say the ear sound (deer, here, hear).
Two grades, one set of words: both print from the same 30. Print one here, or open a grade for examples and teaching notes.
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1st grade
The air sound (chair, care, bear) and the ear sound (deer, here, fear) are r-controlled cousins with overlapping spellings. First graders sort by sound, training the ear past the tricky spellings.
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2nd grade Core grade
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Second graders sort quickly, handle the two-faced ear spelling (bear vs. hear), and read new air/ear words by sound-checking instead of letter-guessing.
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