Grade 1 Phonics: ir (bird) — I Can Read Sentences
Birds, dirt, and girls pop off the page when your Grade 1 readers blend those tricky 'ir' sounds into real sentences. 📚✨ Watch confidence bloom as decodable text becomes fluent reading.
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Grade 1 Ontario phonics worksheet (Language — Word-Level Reading strand). Topic: R-Controlled Vowels & tch/dge — 'ir' (as in bird). I can read decodable words and sentences with the /er/ sound spelled 'ir' (as in bird). This is a print-ready, no-prep decodable reading / phonics activity from the R-Controlled Vowels & tch/dge set, with a matching teacher guide and answer key included. Sample sentences: The bird is in the dirt. The girl is first. Great for Grade 1 phonics, decoding, blending, decodable sentences, and reading fluency, guided reading, small groups, literacy centres, and Science-of-Reading practice. From The Classroom Exchange.