Thanksgiving poems help you sneak a little phonics instruction in your November language arts lessons! These phonics poems target r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur) and consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th, th, wh). Thanksgiving Phonics Poems included:The Mayflower r-controlled vowels: erdigraphs: ch, sh, thThe Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians r-controlled vowels: ar, ir, or, urdigraphs: sh, th, whIn 1621 r-controlled vowels: ar, irdigraph: thTurkey in October r-controlled vowels: er, ir, or,