Starter quiz
- Choose the correct spelling and representation of the word in bold in the following sentence: The day after Sunday is munday.
- munday
- Munday
- Monday ✓
- monday
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- Identify all the words that have the suffix '-ed' in them to show the past tense.
- walked ✓
- hide
- owned ✓
- seed
- had
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- Identify all the words that contain the spelling '-tion'.
- action ✓
- television
- collection ✓
- show
- fun
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- Match the words with their related meaning (and root words).
- invite⇔invitation ✓
- inform⇔information ✓
- educate⇔education ✓
- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 2+2 is an adishon question.
- addishun
- adition
- addishun
- addition ✓
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: A half is a type of frakshon.
- fracshon
- fratoin
- fraction ✓
- fracshun
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Exit quiz
- Choose the correct spelling and representation of the word in bold in the following sentence: I have toast evree day for breakfast.
- evree
- every ✓
- everee
- evry
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- Identify all the words that contain the spelling '-tion'.
- portion ✓
- important
- potion ✓
- possible
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- Which of these words are nouns?
- collection ✓
- collect
- question ✓
- bring
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- Words ending in '-tion', like 'fraction' or 'station' are often what word class?
- adverb
- noun ✓
- verb
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: The witch mixed her poshon.
- powshun
- potion ✓
- potoin
- poshun
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- Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: The train is at the stayshun.
- 'station' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- tion' is the most common spelling of /shun/.
- Words ending in 'tion' are often nouns, like 'action', 'collection', 'question' and 'section'.
- How to spell the common exception words: every and everybody.
Common misconception
Some children will think that all words ending in -tion should have a recognisable root word.
Show some words ending in -tion that don't have recognisable root words, e.g. potion.
Keywords
Suffix - a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning
Spelling - a letter or group of letters representing a sound or section of a word
Word class - different types of words that are used to form sentences
Noun - a naming word for people, places or things
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