-ir flashpack
Ages 6–8 · 7 minutes · English
Use flashcards to practice intermediate spelling words with the -ir pattern
Use flashcards to master spelling words like girl, first, circus, dirt, shirt, skirt, third and stir. Help Banjo the Bird get to the finish line!
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Standards alignment
Common Core State Standards
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- L.3.2.f — Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.
Alabama
- ELA21.2.38h — Encode words with vowel-_r_ combinations.
- ELA21.1.31g — With prompting and support, encode words with vowel-_r_ combinations _ar, or, er, ir,_ and _ur._
- ELA21.2.10f — Decode and encode words with vowel-_r_ combinations.
Alaska
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
Arizona
- 2.WF.3.a.4 — Vowel-r combinations (e.g., turn, star, third, four, for).
- 1.WF.3.a.5 — Vowel-r combinations, including er, ar, or (e.g., car, her, stir, for, burn).
- 2.WF.3 — Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills when encoding words.
- 2.WF.3.a — Spell on-level, regular, single-syllable words that include:
Arkansas
- 2.FR.10.PE — Encode one-syllable words with less predictable vowel-r patterns (e.g., girl, burn, world).
- 3.FR.7.PE — Encode two-syllable words with vowel-r patterns (e.g., forget, doctor, cartoon, mustard).
California
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Colorado
- RWC20-GR.1-S.3-GLE.4-EO.b.v — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- RWC20-GR.2-S.3-GLE.4-EO.b.iv — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (for example: cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RWC20-GR.2-S.3-GLE.4-EO.a.viii — Spell high-frequency words correctly.
Connecticut
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Delaware
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Florida
- ELA.1.F.1.3 — Use knowledge of grade-appropriate phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words accurately. • Decode words using knowledge of spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs, trigraphs, and blends. • Decode simple words with r-controlled vowels. • Decode and encode regularly spelled one-syllable words. • Decode words with inflectional endings. • Decode two-syllable words with regular patterns by breaking the words into syllables. • Decode words that use final –e and vowel teams to make long-vowel sound.
- ELA.1.C.3.1 — Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.
Georgia
- ELAGSE1L2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- ELAGSE2L2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- ELAGSE2RF3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Hawaii
- 2.L.2d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- 1.L.2d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- 2.RF.3e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
- 2.RF.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Idaho
- 1.FR.PH.3e — Learn all the r-controlled vowel patterns (-ar, -er, -ir, -or, -ur) and recognize how they change short vowel recognition and pronunciation
- 1.GC.M.3a — Use conventional spelling for words with common, taught spelling patterns and frequently occurring irregular words.
- 2.GC.M.3a — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- 1.GC.M.3 — Use knowledge of spelling in writing.
Illinois
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Indiana
- 2.W.8 — Demonstrate command of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, focusing on: a. Capitalization – Capitalizing greetings, months and days of the week, titles and initials in names, and proper nouns, including holidays and geographic names. b. Punctuation – I. Correctly using a period, question mark, or exclamation mark at the end of a sentence. II. Using an apostrophe to form contractions and singular possessive nouns. III. Using commas in greetings and closings of letters, dates, and to separate items in a series. c. Encoding – I. Correctly spelling words with short and long vowel sounds, r-controlled vowels, and consonant-blend patterns. II. Generalizing learned spelling patterns (e.g., word families) when writing words. III. Correctly spelling common irregularly-spelled, grade-appropriate words (e.g., said, does, gone). (E) Communication and Collaboration
- 1.RF.5 — Use letter-sound knowledge of single consonants (hard and soft sounds), short and long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs, vowel teams (e.g., ai) and digraphs, and r-controlled vowels to decode phonetically regular words (e.g., cat, go, black, boat, her), independent of context. (E)
- 1.W.8 — Demonstrate command of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, focusing on: a. Capitalization – Capitalizing the first word of a sentence, dates, names of people, and the pronoun I. b. Punctuation – I. Correctly using a period, question mark, and exclamation mark at the end of a sentence. II. Using commas in dates and to separate items in a series. c. Encoding – I. Spelling unknown words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions. II. Correctly spelling words with common spelling patterns. III. Correctly spelling common irregularly-spelled, grade-appropriate words (e.g., said, does, gone). (E) Communication and Collaboration
Iowa
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — With prompting and support, decode and encode words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Kansas
- W.1.11.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently-occurring irregular words.
- W.2.11.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words.
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences (e.g., -ay, -igh).
Kentucky
- L.2.2.d — Generalize spelling patterns.
Louisiana
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage→ badge; boy→ boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Maine
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- L.2.1.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- R.3.2.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Maryland
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Massachusetts
- L.1.2.e — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.e — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Michigan
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Minnesota
- 1.2.1.2 — Accurately spell words in common word families and high-frequency words; use phonetic spelling for other words.
- 2.2.1.2 — Apply spelling patterns and rules to spell words with consonant and vowel digraphs and diphthongs, six syllable types, and inflectional suffixes authentically in writing.
- 2.1.1.2.a — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words: know the spelling-sound correspondences for the common vowel graphemes.
Mississippi
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Missouri
- 1.L.1.B.e — spell words using regular spelling patterns
- 1.L.1.B.f — spell words phonetically using phonemic awareness and spelling knowledge
- 2.RF.3.A.h — using common syllable patterns to decode words including r-controlled vowels
Montana
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Nebraska
- LA.1.F.3.b — Decode and encode simple words with r-controlled vowels
- LA.1.F.3 — Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding (spelling) words.
- LA.1.FW.2 — Demonstrate sound-letter concepts when writing.
Nevada
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
New Hampshire
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
New Jersey
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.d — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
New Mexico
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
New York
- 2RF3 — Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- 1RF3 — Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
North Carolina
- RF.2.4 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- RF.2.4.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
- L.1.2 — Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing; demonstrate proficiency within the K-1 conventions continuum.
North Dakota
- 2.F.9d — r-controlled
- 2.F.9 — Encode words with phoneme-grapheme correspondences:
Ohio
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Oklahoma
- 2.2.SE.1 — Students will use correct spelling when writing the following sounds in words: a. digraphs b. trigraphs c. vowel digraphs d. r-controlled *sequential skills
- 2.2.SE.2 — Students will use correct spelling when writing the following syllable types in single-syllable and multisyllabic words: a. closed b. open c. vowel-consonant-silent e d. r-controlled *sequential skills
Oregon
- 2.L.2d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words.
- 1.L.2d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- 2.RF.3e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Pennsylvania
- CC.1.4.1.L — Demonstrate a grade- appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. • Capitalize dates and names of people. • Use end punctuation; use commas in dates and words in series. • Spell words drawing on common spelling patterns, phonemic awareness, and spelling conventions.
- CC.1.1.1.D — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. • Identify common consonant diagraphs, final-e, and common vowel teams. • Decode one- and two-syllable words with common patterns. • Read grade-level words with inflectional endings. • Read grade- appropriate irregularly spelled words.
- CC.1.4.2.L — Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. • Capitalize proper nouns. • Use commas and apostrophes appropriately. • Spell words drawing on common spelling patterns. • Consult reference material as needed.
Rhode Island
- L.1.2.e — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.e — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
South Carolina
- ELA.1.F.3.8 — Decode and encode words using: a. onset/rime; b. consonant blends (i.e., initial and final); c. consonant digraphs (i.e., ch, sh, th, wh, ph, ck); d. trigraphs (e.g., -tch, -dge)*; e. combination (i.e., qu); f. VCe; g. vowel r (e.g., ar, er, ir, or, ur); h. common inflectional endings that do not change the base word (e.g., -s, -ed); i. contractions with am, is, has, and not; j. hard and soft sounds of c and g (c=/k/ before a, o, u, or any consonant and c= /s/ before i, e, or y; g=/g/ before a, o, u, or any consonant and g=/j/ before i, e, or y) *; k. vowel y in the final position of one- and two-syllable words, distinguishing the difference between the long /ī/ sound in one-syllable words and the long /ē/ sound in two-syllable words, and words with vowel y in medial position, producing the short /ĭ/ sound (e.g., fly-my; baby-happy, myth-gym) *; l. words that follow the -ild, -ost, -old, -olt, and -ind patterns (e.g., mild, host, fold, jolt, kind); m. silent letter combinations (e.g., kn, wr, mb, gh, gn) *; n. words with final /f/, /l/, and /s/ sounds in one-syllable base words by doubling the final consonant when it follows a short vowel sound (e.g., cliff, hill, pass); and o. words with final /v/ sound, using knowledge that no English word ends with a v. (e.g. have, give, save).
- ELA.1.F.3 — Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and encoding words. (FK -1.3-2.18 LF BR-430)
- ELA.1.F.3.4 — Identify the vowel and produce the vowel sound in a printed syllable or word to: a. decode regularly spelled one-syllable words (syllables include: closed, open, and vowel-consonant-e) including words with blends in initial and final position; b. decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with vowel-r syllables (i.e., ar, er, ir, or, and ur); and c. decode two-syllable words using knowledge of syllables (i.e., closed, open, vowel-consonant-e, vowel-r, common vowel teams, and consonant-le), including compound words that fit multiple syllable types. *
South Dakota
- 1.L.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- 2.L.2.e — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- 2.L.2.d — Spell grade appropriate high frequency words correctly.
Tennessee
- 1.FL.WC.4.b — Use conventional spelling for one-syllable words with common vowel spelling patterns including CVCe, common vowel teams, final -y, and r-controlled vowels.
- 2.FL.WC.4.a — Use conventional spelling for one-syllable words including position-based patterns, complex consonant blends, less common vowel teams for long vowels, vowel-r combinations, contractions, homophones, plurals, and possessives.
- 1.FL.PWR.3.c — Know the final –e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds, including r controlled vowels.
Texas
- 1.2C.i — spelling words with closed syllables, open syllables, VCe syllables, vowel teams, and r-controlled syllables;
- 1.2C.iii — spelling words using sound-spelling patterns; and
- 2.2C.i — spelling one-syllable and multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables;
Utah
- 1.R.3.b — With prompting and support, identify and begin reading and spelling words with all six syllable types (i.e., open, closed, CVCe, vowel team, vowel-r, consonant -le).
- 1.R.3 — Demonstrate mastery of age-appropriate phonics skills.
- 2.R.3.a — Identify and begin reading and spelling words with all six syllable types (i.e., open, closed, CVCe, vowel team, vowel-r, consonant -le) in multisyllabic words.
Vermont
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Virginia
- 2.FFW.2.A — Use phoneme-grapheme (sound/symbol correspondence to encode (spell) single-syllable words containing closed syllables (cvc, ccvc, cvcc, and ccvcc), open syllables (cv, ccv), vowel-consonant-e (cvce, ccvce), vowel teams, and r-controlled vowels.
- 1.LU.2.C — Use conventional spelling of words with commonly taught spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- 2.FFR.3.B — Decode and encode words with vowel teams and r-controlled vowels.
- 2.LU.2.C — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words.
Washington
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Washington, D.C.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
West Virginia
- ELA.2.37.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage / badge; boy / boil).
- ELA.1.37.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words. Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions.
- ELA.2.II.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Wisconsin
- ELA.1.L.6.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and draw on phonological awareness and spelling conventions to spell other words phonetically. Related to Reading Foundational standards (RF.1.3).
- ELA.2.L.6.d — Use common spelling patterns, phonemic awareness, and basic reference materials to solve words.
Wyoming
- L.1.2.d — Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
- L.2.2.d — Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
- RF.2.3.e — Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.