Starter quiz
- Match the word to the spelling of the /shun/ suffix it contains.
- politician⇔cian ✓
- exploration⇔tion ✓
- disucussion⇔sion ✓
- revision⇔sion ✓
- Words spelt with -ssion often have a root word ending in which letters?
- ss ✓
- t
- mit ✓
- te
- d
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the sentence: That was an interesting discushon.
- discusion
- discussion ✓
- discushun
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the sentence: You need purmishon to come on this trip.
- permision
- permition
- permission ✓
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the sentence: They saw a faymus artist at the museum.
- famus
- fameous
- famous ✓
- famuous
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- Write the correct spelling of the word in bold in this sentence: Try to imajin you are on a desert island.
- 'imagine' ✓
Exit quiz
- Match the word to the spelling of the /shun/ suffix it contains.
- magician⇔cian ✓
- station⇔tion ✓
- permission⇔ssion ✓
- revision⇔sion ✓
- Words spelt with -cian often have a root word ending in which letters?
- c ✓
- mit
- de
- cs ✓
- ss
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the sentence: She was a skilful muzishon.
- musician ✓
- musicion
- musision
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- Write the correct spelling of the word in bold in the sentence: Our lights have broken so I called an electrishun.
- 'electrician' ✓
- Write the correct spelling of the word in bold in the sentence: As there are 8 of us, we can each have one ayth of this cake.
- 'eighth' ✓
- Write the correct spelling of the word in bold in the sentence: What is the wait of this bag of apples in kg?
- 'weight' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The /shun/ suffix can be spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion or -cian.
- Words ending in the suffix -cian are nouns and a profession.
- Words spelt with -cian often have a root word ending in ‘c’ or ‘cs’.
- How to spell the curriculum words: eighth, weight and knowledge.
Common misconception
Pupils spell the ending of professions 'cion'.
Focus on the difference between -ion and -ian endings. Say the word how it's spelt to reinforce this: mu -si -ci -an.
Keywords
Noun - a naming word for a person, place or thing
Root word - the base word from which other words are formed often by adding prefixes or suffixes
Suffix - a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning.
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