R Controlled Vowels Decoding Drills | Real and Nonsense Word Fluency Practice

These r-controlled vowels decoding activities are perfect for children who are just learning to read words with an r-controlled vowel or those students who are struggling to decode bossy r words quickly and automatically. Each decodable sheet includes decodable words, nonsense words, sentences, and a short story. These phonics activities are designed to move students from slowly blending words to a level where decoding is habitual and automatic.

Why did I create these decodable sheets?

I created these activities for the first grade students in my own classroom. After introducing a new phonics pattern my students need practice reading and applying the skills that they have just learned. I love using these no prep sheets as a warmup in guided reading

groups.

The Research

I created these Fast Reads as a way to improve fluency. According the the National Reading Panel, a few things are critical of good reading instruction.

•Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness

•Systematic phonics instruction

•Methods to improve fluency

How can I use these decodable readers in my classroom?

•Use with individual students.

•Use as a warmup in guided reading groups.

•Send home with students as a tool to practice at home.

•Parent volunteers

What is included?

Each sheet includes:

•12 decodable words

•8 decodable nonsense words

•5 decodable sentences

•A short story

Skills Included:

•ar

•er

•ir

•or

•ur

•oar, ore, or /or/

•air, are

•ear, eer