"ARRGH" Controlled Vowels

We learned how grumpy the letter r is if it has to follow a vowel.  In fact, it sounds like a mean old pirate and won't even let the vowel say it's name. We played a game called "R-controlled Pirates and the Golden Vowels". A word was given to the group. The Golden Vowel Girls had to chose the correct vowel to match the word given, then they hid. The R-controlled Pirates had to find the gold and both kids had to write the word correctly in their notebooks. Then, the kids changed jobs. They also worked on r-controlled vowels in a reading station. It made learning about r-controlled vowels 'arrgfully' fun, matey!