A phoneme is a unit of sound. The 'er' phoneme sounds like this:

Sometimes the 'er' phoneme is spelt in different ways. The other main ways of spelling the phoneme are 'ur' and 'ir'.

church

bird

Sometimes if the sound comes after the letter 'w' it can even be spelt 'or'.

 

worm

In this worksheet you can practise reading and writing these different spellings of the 'er' phoneme.