When teaching phonics skills it is often helpful to use keyword and picture to help learners remember the sound in alphabetical order.
Let’s explore the list of er, ir and ur words which you can use to teach your kindergarten students.
ER Sound Phonics Words list
| brother | stronger | helper |
| better | weaker | keeper |
| bitter | maker | fern |
| litter | speaker | ever |
| write | stower | mother |
| writer | mover | sister |
| hover | rover | answer |
IR Sound Phonics Words List
| their | first | birth |
| wire | girls | thirteen |
| hire | skirt | shirt |
| tired | thirsty | dirty |
| hired | firm | twirl |
| bird | stir | thirty |
| chirp | circle | birthday |
UR Sound Phonics Words List
| church | hurt | purple |
| nurse | fur | turtle |
| curse | figure | curt |
| burn | injury | burst |
| surf | surprise | bun |
| turn | Thursday | bus |
Above we can see that, er, ir, ur is placed in the middle or at the end of a word. Everything, ir, er, ur sounds the same in each word, “a”.
Children will be able to understand better when they see pictures or play a game that contains ir, er, and ur.