AR Words Phonics Worksheets

5 AR Words Worksheets

There are lots of kindergarten and first grade AR words!

Kids like learning the song Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and they often get the idea of the r-controlled-a sound just by singing the song a few times. It's easy as it has the same tune as the ABC song.

There are five AR phonics worksheets in this download, so you can choose how much to assign. If your children are younger than second grade one page will offer plenty of practice.

If you have third grade and older children who are learning the AR sound, they can do more; yet one or two pages from these worksheets is surely enough for most children to begin.

Do teach the AR sound and how to write it, offer dictation of several words so your children get the idea, and then give them these phonics worksheets for homework or practice.

Use your favorite phonics books for rules and syllabication, and then use these PDF printable worksheets for review. True phonics works with any system.

Print the first one two up for middle school children to have smaller lines like handwriting worksheets. It looks like a lot less work to the kids and actually improves their penmanship since the letters are not so large.

See sample words and dictation and then the worksheets.

1. Learning Phonics: AR Phonics Worksheets

Reading a poem or learning a song are great ways to help kids "hear" the sound because the sound is often isolated at the end of a line of poetry. Stories that focus on AR sound words are also helpful. 

Here there is no consistent AR rule, except these general phonics rules:

• We do not divide phonograms when making syllables, so keep the AR together at the end of a line of text. 
• There is nothing to change when a word ends in AR for adding a vowel suffix.
• Plural AR words simply add s. This makes a fun dictation exercise. :-)
• Often we prevent the /ar/ blended sound by adding another r to the next syllable as with the word arrow, meaning that the a retains its short vowel sound.

For parents, teachers, and homeschool tutors who are teaching phonics activities for ESL students, might like to make the association between the sound made for AR verbs. You'll definitely want to teach that English doe not form the infinitive this way.

The AR digraph is a blend where the a can still be heard in its third sound /ah/ and the r can also be heard. Here they're blended together and they make one new sound. 

Our AR worksheets have two size levels. You can make a third and smaller size by printing the first one two-up for older students to have a small and elegant size:

1. Kindergarten AR Words In a Large Font - K-2, print 2-up for middle school.
2. Third Grade AR Words Small Font - Great size for grades 3-6.

Choose the size that works for your children. The different sizes can help you teach phonics to several ages of children.

2. Teaching Phonics: Dictation List of AR Words

As you're teaching the phonogram AR, dictate these words for your children to write into their notebooks or use your own paper.

The main thing is to have practice writing the /ar/ sound "by ear". The AR worksheets above make homework lessons. I include some simple sentences below so you can teach the vocabulary of the words you dictate.

3. List Of AR Words With Dictation Sentences:

4. Two Syllable AR Words To Dictate:

5. Words That Start With A

6. Basic AR Words Worksheets To Print

K123 Large Font Phonics AR Worksheets

Gr. 456 Small Font Phonics AR Worksheets

7. Interactive Phonics Worksheets

You can print these PDF printables or store them in a file for your child's phonics lessons and exercises. Whether they read the lists, write the words, or type the words, they'll have excellent phonics practice. 

You are also free to use them as PowerPoint presentations (PPT). Learn how these PDF printables are interactive here.

8. How To Teach Phonics With More Free Phonics Worksheets

You'll find more than forty free phonics worksheets on our main phonics page. 

I also list my favorite phonics kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade, phonics books, activities, and videos from the same page.

You might like to know that these next worksheets are available in both manuscript and cursive worksheets:

• Spelling Worksheets
• Grammar Worksheets
• A Child's Garden of Verses - Poetry and handwriting printable worksheets.

Buy Our Phonics Worksheets In Bundles: Phonics, Spelling, And Reading

Buy the bundle of our online phonics worksheets in one digital download for ad-free access to phonics practice for your elementary school students at school or at home.

BONUS: It includes our cursive writing worksheets.

Homeschool worksheets for spelling practice and Robert Louis Stevenson's poetry handwriting worksheets make great ESL printable worksheets. Enjoy!

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