To practise and apply knowledge of suffixes: -tion, -cian, -sion, -ssion, including test

Key Stage 2

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A Christmas Carol - Narrative writing

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Suffixes:  -tion -cian -sion -ssion

﻿Hi, everybody. Welcome to today's lesson. My name is Mrs. Richards. And in today's lesson, we are going to practise and apply your knowledge of suffixes, ending T-I-O-N, C-I-A-N, S-S-I-O-N, and S-I-O-N. It's going to be great, let's get started. In today's lesson, We're going to start by recapping our knowledge of suffixes. Then we're going to learn, a spelling practise strategy and then we've got a test. In this lesson you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil, and definitely your brain. Pause the video and go and get any resources now. Okay, let's get started. Let's recap what we know already about those suffixes. Here's our key vocabulary. There are three terms on the board. I'm going to read you the terms, and then I want you to pause the video and tell the screen, the definition each of these. First one, noun, root, suffix. Okay. Off you go. How did you get on? Let's see. A noun is a person, place or thing. Did you get it? A root is the most basic version of a word onto which the prefix or suffix is attached. Finally, a suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that changes meaning and sometimes it's word class. Okay. Here are our four -sion suffixes . Each of these is spelled differently, but they make the same sound

sion at the end of our words. They all form nouns. I wonder if you can remember how we know which suffix to use. How do I know if I hear -sion, if it should be spelled T-I-O-N or S-I-O-N. Last time we came up with some patterns and rules together. Let's see if you can match the rules on the board to the suffixes. Have the game. Okay, so we see So, we use S-I-O_N when the root word ends d, or de, or se. We use S-S-I-O-N when the root word ends in double s or M-I-T. We use C-I-A-N when the root word ends in a c or a cs. And we use that for professions, for jobs. Finally, we use T-I-O-N when the root word ends in a t or a te. And this was our best bet. T-I-O-N is the most common spelling of the -tion suffix. So if you're not sure, or if the other rules don't apply then that's your best bet spelling to try. Okay. Let's practise some of these together. I'm going to give you a noun ending -tion, and I want to see if you can spot the word within a word. Are you ready? Action, action. Can you spot the root word within the noun action? If you can spot the root word, I wonder if you can point to the correct suffix on the board. Have a go. Okay, so we see Action comes from the root act. Act ends in a t and so we know that we have to use T-I-O-N for that -tion spelling. Next one. Decision, decision. Pause the video and say aloud the root word, the word within the word and point to the correct suffix on the board. Off you. How did it get on? In decision we can see, and we can hear the word decide. Decide ends in a de, that means we have to spell the -sion suffix S-I-O-N. Let's try another one. Mathematician, mathematician. Pause the video, tell the screen the root word and point to the correct suffix. Off you go. Okay, so we see. Mathematician, I can hear the word mathematic, mathematics. So we know that, that ends in a cs. And so I have to use the spelling C-I-A-N. Mathematician, well that's also a profession. It's a job. And so that's another clue that, that's the right spelling of the -cian suffix. How about this one? Confession, confession. Pause the video, tell the screen the root word and point to the correct suffix. Go. Okay. Inside confession, you can see, and you can hear the root word confess. Confess ends in a double s. So I know that the correct spelling of the suffix must be S-S-I-O-N. Okay. Let's look at some spelling practise strategies together. These are strategies that are going to help you to learn your words. Here is the first one. Okay. This is the one that makes me look very silly. But, its actually one of the most fun strategies to practise? This is your challenge to rap the spellings of these words. The strategies called spell to a rhythm. We are going to try to sing rap or clap these words to a rhythm. For example, if I'm trying to learn the word invention. I'm going to rap that like this. ♪ I ♪ ♪ n ♪ ♪ v ♪ ♪ ent ♪ ♪ i ♪ ♪ o ♪ ♪ n ♪ ♪ I ♪ ♪ nv ♪ ♪ ent ♪ ♪ i ♪ ♪ o ♪ ♪ n ♪ Can you hear that I've got a rhythm. You could even try and clap along. Let's do it one more time. ♪ I ♪ ♪ nv ♪ ♪ ent ♪ ♪ i ♪ ♪ o ♪ ♪ n ♪ Let's try another. Extension. I wonder if I could clap or I could rap the rhythm here. Extension. ♪ Ex ♪ ♪ te ♪ ♪ n ♪ ♪ s i ♪ ♪ o ♪ ♪ n ♪ ♪ E ♪ ♪ x ♪ ♪ te ♪ ♪ n ♪ ♪ si ♪ ♪ on ♪ Can you clap along. ♪ EX ♪ ♪ te ♪ ♪ n ♪ ♪ s ♪ ♪ i ♪ ♪ on ♪ Okay. I've had my go of looking silly. Now you've go try. I want you to rap the spellings of some of these words. Pick the words, which are the most challenging for you to spell. How would you rap it? What letters would you say faster? What would you say slower? Where would you pause? Have the go now. Well done, everybody. Excellent. Why is that such a useful strategy? So, it forces us to interact with how the word looks. We've got to pay close attention to the word. That helps us to retain how word is, how the word is spelled. And it helps us to break the word into smaller chunks. Okay. I'm going to teach you a second strategy today as well. This one is called spot a word in a word, and it's actually what we've been doing for lots of our practise. You might be able to spot the root word within some of these words. The root word might be a whole word that you recognise or part of a word. I wonder if there are any other words within these words which you can spot. Your job is to copy out the spelling again, with the word in bigger letters underlined or highlighted in colour. Have a look at my example. Extension is one of our spelling words. Inside the word extension. I can see tension. I can see most of the word tens. I can see the prefix -ex. Oh, at the end, I can see on O-N. And I can also see the word ten. Just below that I've coloured in some of those words that I can see. I've coloured that word ten in yellow and the on, in pink. I've also tried writing them in bigger letters to help me remember. When we start to be able to break down words into smaller chunks, it helps us to be able to spell them and to be able to remember that correct spelling. So your turn. Here are spelling words on the board. Have a go and see how many words you can spot inside each of our spelling words. Pause the video. Okay. Why was this a useful strategy? It encourages something called growth mindset we focus on which letters we can spout as well as those which we find more challenging. It breaks down into smaller chunks. And it helps us to form links between words and spot patterns. Once you can do these things, you can become an amazing speller. Okay. If you need more practise, now is a good time to pause the video and take some time to be able to practise rapping our words, saying them to a rhythm, colour blocking them, writing them in a different and spotting words within words. As much practise as possible is important. This is what helps us to retain those words in our longterm memory. And then use them in our writing. So you need more practise time, pause the video. Otherwise let's start our spelling test. Here's some strategies to remember today. Pause, take a deep breath, and take as much time as you need. Try writing the word more than once if you're unsure. Think about which spelling looks right. If you're unsure, try writing the word more than once and then sound out the different spellings. Which spelling sounds right. If you're ready to start, you need a clean sheet of paper, the pencil. You need to write the numbers one to 10 down the margin or down the side of your page. Make sure you can't see your spelling words anywhere. Get ready now. Pause the video. Okay. Are you ready for the test? I'm going to say each word twice and then put the word within a sentence. Pause the video whenever you need to, take as much time as you need, and remember those spelling strategies. Number one. Invention, invention. I've come up with a brilliant invention. Number two. Hesitation, hesitation. I spoke with hesitation. Pause the video whenever you need to, take as much time as you need. Number three. Station, station. The train stops at the station. Number four. Division, division. We can use division in maths. You're doing really well. Pause the video whenever you need to, remember those strategies. Take a deep breath. Number five. Extension, extension. Sir, is there any extension? Number six. Tension, tension. I can feel the tension all around me. Number seven. Discussion, discussion. We need to have a discussion. Pause the video whenever you need to, give yourself as much time as you need. You're doing really well. Number eight. Permission, permission. I need permission to walk home by myself. Number nine. Musician, musician. I wish I was a better musician. Number 10. Electrician, electrician. I would like to become an electrician. Pause the video. Take as much time as you need, reflect on your spellings now. Think about if they look right, if they sound right, and then when you're ready, we'll go through the answers. Okay, Spelling number one. Invention. I'm going to spell the word for you. I want you to look at your spelling and self-correct. That means taking it if it's correct, but correcting any errors that you might have made. Don't worry about making mistakes that's how we learn. The important thing is that you now write the correct spelling. Number one. Invention, I-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N Self-correct. Pause the video. Number two. Hesitation. H-E-S-I-T-A-T-I-O-N. Pause the video and self-correct. Number three. Station, S-T-A-T-I-O-N. Self-correct, pause the video. NUmber four. Division, D-I-V-I-S-I-O-N. Self-correct, pause the video. You're doing really well. Number five. Extension, E-X-T-E-N-S-I-O-N. Self-correct, pause the video Number six. Tension, T-E-N-S-I-O-N. Self-correct, pause the video. Number seven. Discussion, D-I-S-C-U-S-S-I-O-N. Self-correct, pause the video. Number eight. Permission, P-E-R-M-I-S-S-I-O-N. Self-correct, pause the video. You're doing brilliantly. Two more to go. Number nine. Musician, M-U-S-I-C-I-A-N. Number 10. Electrician, E-L-E-C-T-R-I-C-I-A-N. Self-correct, pause the video. Take as much time as you need now. Make sure that you have each spelling written correctly on your page. Well done. Be proud of how much you practised. Did you practise for 10 minutes every day? Be proud of the number of practise strategies that you have used. Did you try letter blocking? Did you try rapping the words to a rhythm? Did you try letters? Did you try spotting a word in a word? Be proud of how you're now paying close attention to words in your reading and writing. I wonder if you've seen any of these words around you this week. In mispelt words, look at how many letters you spelled correctly, as well as the letters which were wrong. Remember, you can't be a good speller or a bad speller. We're all just getting better. And you can not spell a word, I'm sure that in most words you can spell. The first couple of letters, the last letter. Perhaps some letters in the middle. There's always bits that we can improve on. And that's why practise is important. Remember, learning comes from mistakes. You might not be able to spell this word yet, but keep practising . Well done for such a brilliant lesson. I hope you're proud of yourself. I see you soon.

To practise and apply knowledge of suffixes: -tion, -cian, -sion, -ssion, including test

To practise and apply knowledge of suffixes: -tion, -cian, -sion, -ssion, including test

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