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They can also try to spell the words.Ĭlick on the following link for a free PowerPoint version of this resource.

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You can download resources for other digraphs from our free digraph worksheets page.Ĭhildren need to decide which pictures represent words that contain the ‘er’ digraph. We’ve also made free PowerPoint versions of some of the resources.

Click on the headings or the images below to access these resources. We’ve created the following worksheets that you to download for free. If the word still doesn’t make sense to them, then it might be outside their vocabulary and they should ask an adult for help. Teach children to try the separate sounds when none of the alternative digraph sounds help them to sound out a recognisable word. This normally happens when the letter pair is at the boundary between two syllables.įor example, the letters ‘e’ and ‘r’ are pronounced as separate sounds in the words ‘very’, ‘peril’ and ‘cleric’. It’s also worth pointing out to children that in some words ‘er’ doesn’t act as a digraph at all.

/ r/ (silent e) as in ev ery, cam era (and diff erent in some accents).

/ air/ as in bol ero and sombr ero (usually words from non-English speaking parts of Europe).

/ ar/ as in cl erk, D erby and s ergeant.

/ ear/ as in cafet eria, c ereal, h ero, z ero.

Nevertheless, it’s worth pointing out some of these examples to children once they’ve mastered the most common sounds. The er digraph can represent a few other sounds, but all of these are much less common than the /ur/ sound mentioned above. However, learners who are non-native speakers of English might need a bit more support. This is demonstrated in the ‘Little Learners’ video on blending er words below:Īn exaggerated, fully stressed pronunciation can be helpful when children are first learning to read new digraphs, and it can also help them to remember the correct spellings.Įven though their pronunciation might sound a bit robotic at first, children gradually start to recognise the letter patterns more quickly and eventually say the words in a way that’s closer to their spoken accent. Most teachers in England introduce the digraph as the fully pronounced /ur/ sound at first, no matter where it occurs in words. The popular English phonics teacher Mr Thorne discusses the pronunciation in British English and gives several examples in the video below: We discuss this in more detail in our article on the schwa sound. The technical term for the ‘uh’ sound in these examples is the schwa, which has the following symbol: /Ə/. In some British English and Australian accents, the ‘er’ digraph is pronounced as an unstressed ‘uh’ sound when it appears in unstressed syllables.įor example, it’s common to hear people say ‘flow uh’ or ‘butt uh’ instead of flow er and butt er.

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The ‘Sounds American’ videos below give a thorough description of the alternative pronunciations of the common sounds for the er digraph in American accents.Īnd the video below gives a more detailed explanation of how to differentiate between the two sounds:

The IPA symbol for this sound is /ɚ/ in American English. However, it can also occur in words with an initial unstressed syllable such as b erserk and p erhaps. For example, in words such as flow er, supp er and mix er. This happens most often at the end of words with more than one syllable. However, the sound is said in a more relaxed way, which means it’s said a bit more quickly and quietly with a lower tone. You can hear the sounds in the Wikipedia IPA Help page.Ī similar, sound is often pronounced when the digraph represents part of an unstressed syllable. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbol for this sound is /ɜ:/ in British RP English and /ɝ/ in American English. There’s some variation in the way the digraph is pronounced in different English-speaking countries and even within different regions in the same country. The same sound is sometimes represented by other digraphs such as ‘ir’ in bird and ‘ur’ in burn. The most common sound associated with the er digraph is the /ur/ sound, which is found in words such as ‘h er’, k erb, h erd, t erm and p erson.