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Hello and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr Martin.

I'm really looking forward to teaching you.

With you today, you need to bring your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains.

As well as that, something to write with and write on and someone or something to talk to would also be brilliant, right? Let's get right into today's spelling lesson then.

In today's spending lesson we're going to be looking at all of the shun suffixes, including -tion, -cian, -sion and -ssion.

The outcome will be, I can spell words using all of the shun suffixes.

Here are the key words for today's lesson.

My turn, your turn.

Make sure I can hear you say these back to me clearly.

Suffix.

Root word.

Noun.

Brilliant.

Thank you for saying those so clearly to me.

Let's have a little chat about what these words mean then.

A suffix is a letter or group of letters we add to the end of a word to change its meaning.

The root word is the base word from which other words are formed by adding prefixes or suffixes.

And remember today we're concentrating on adding suffixes.

So a group of letters at the end of a word.

A noun is a naming word for a person, place or thing.

Please keep an eye and ear out for these words in today's learning, as they're really important.

Here's the outline of today's lesson.

We're going to be looking at all of the shun suffixes.

We're gonna begin by looking at those shun suffixes.

Then we're gonna have a go at spelling some curriculum words.

And finally, we're gonna have a go applying the spellings we've been looking at today within a sentence.

Let's get on with looking at all of the shun suffixes then.

Remember that a suffix is a letter or group of letters that we add to the end of a word to create a new word.

Unlike prefixes, suffixes often change the word's tense or word class.

Remember, prefixes come at the start of a word, suffixes we add to the end of a word.

Here we have the root word kind, and I've added the N-E-S-S suffix to create the word kindness.

Notice here how the spelling of the root word hasn't changed, but this won't always be the case.

Here we have the root word joy, and I've added the suffix -ful to create the word joyful.

And here we have the word deep, and I've added the E-N suffix to create the word deepen.

These are just three examples of suffixes.

Remember today we're looking at different shun suffixes.

There are lots of different types of suffix, and different suffixes can create words with different word classes remember.

There are also some rules around how the spelling of the root world will change dependent on the suffix that we are adding.

So there are several ways of spelling the suffix, which can sound like shun.

Can you make that sound for me now, shun? Brilliant.

And there are four different ways of spelling the shun.

Here we have beautician.

And you can see here I have my C-I-A-N spelling.

This is a profession, a job.

A beautician's job is to give someone beauty treatments.

Here we have passion, SS-I-O-N spelling for that shun.

Here we have exploration, T-I-O-N spelling.

And here we have precision, that S-I-O-N spelling.

That S-I-O-N spelling can also make a shin sound sometimes as well, like in the word division.

So watch out for that one.

The spelling tion, T-I-O-N is the most common and is your best bet if you hear that shun sound at the end of a word and you're not sure how it's spelled.

So when we are writing a word with an ending that sounds like shun, we might be able to hear a word within the word we are writing.

The last letter or letters of this word that we can hear, this root word can give us a clue about the spelling of the shun suffix.

So which shun spelling it is.

Let's have a look at this table.

We can see first in the table is our shun spelled T-I-O-N.

If the root word ends in T or T-E, then it's most likely going to be a T-I-O-N spelling.

Remember that this is our most common spelling of that shun sound as well and is your best bet if you're unsure of which shun spelling it is.

Our S-I-O-N spelling if the root word ends in D, DE or SE, then we would use S-I-O-N.

And remember as well that this can sometimes sound like zhun.

It can make a zhun as well as a shin, like the word division.

Then we have our SS-I-O-N, and this is if the root word ends in SS or M-I-T.

And finally, we have our C-I-A-N shun.

This is where the root word ends in C or CS.

And remember that this is commonly used for professions, people's jobs.

So I'd like you to have a go at matching the spelling of the shun suffix to the clue that helps us spell it.

We can see on our left hand side, we have our four different shun suffix spellings.

And on the right hand side, we have what the root words might end in.

Match the suffixes now to the clues that help us spell them with the ending of the root words.

Pause the video, off you go.

Excellent job.

So you can see here my T-I-O-N, this is if my root word ends in T or TE.

And remember, this is our most common spelling for that shun suffix, S-I-O-N.

That's if the root word ends in D, DE or SE.

And remember that that can make a zhun sound sometimes.

And our SS-I-O-N, yeah, that's if our root word ends in SS or M-I-T.

And finally shun, C-I-A-N is if our root word ends in C or CS.

Now remember these are professions, they are jobs.

Great.

How did you do that? Pause the video and check.

So I'd like us now to have a go at sort of going the other way.

I'd like to see if you can spot the root word.

Which spelling pattern are we applying? Are we applying A, B, C or D? So I'm gonna show you a word that has a zhun suffix, okay? A zhun suffix, and I want you to see if you can figure out what the root word would've been and which rule we followed, which pattern we followed.

So the first word we're going to look at is action.

What is the root word here? Pause the video and have a think.

Brilliant.

Our root word is act.

Which rule have we then followed? Pause the video and select the correct rule.

Fantastic.

Absolutely, we've used A here, haven't we? Because our root word ends in T.

So we've just added our I-O-N to make action.

So we used A.

The next word is discussion.

What is our root word in discussion? Pause the video and see if you can figure that now.

Brilliant.

Our root word is discuss, ending in a SS.

So which rule have I used here when adding my shun suffix, A, B, C, or D? Pause the video and select the correct rule now.

Fantastic.

Well it's ending in a SS so I've just had to add my I-O-N so I've got my SS-I-O-N shun.

So it was this one here, C.

The next word is decision.

What is my root word in decision? Pause the video and have a think.

Brilliant.

Our root word here is decide ending in DE.

So which rule have I used here? Which pattern? A, B, C or D? Pause the video and have a think.

Brilliant.

Yeah, absolutely.

I've used my S-I-O-N spelling and root word end in D, so it's B, decision.

And be careful with that one because it's making a shun sound there, isn't it? Not a shun but a zhun.

So watch out for that one.

S-I-O-N, root word ending in DE.

And our last one here, mathematician.

Which is our root word here, pause the video and have a think.

Brilliant.

Our root word is mathematics ending in CS.

So which pattern have we used? Pause the video and point to it now.

Brilliant, absolutely.

It's got our C-I-A-N.

So it's D and our root word ending in CS.

A mathematician is a profession, someone who does maths for their living, as their job.

So when practising these spellings it can help to sing, wrap, or clap to a rhythm.

So for example, we have here in-vent-I-O-N, invention.

And we have extension, ex-ten-S-I-O-N, extension.

This helps us to break the word into smaller chunks and focus on any tricky parts.

I'd like you to get a bit creative now and have a go at doing some singing, some rapping, some clapping to the rhythm of some words.

So let's try with one of these words.

I've got the word hesitation.

My turn, your turn, hesitation.

Extension.

Discussion.

So I'd like you to pick one of these words now.

Hesitation, extension, discussion or musician.

And I'd like you to have a go at either singing, rapping, or clapping into a rhythm.

Remember, this is gonna help you break the word down and spot any tricky parts in it.

Pause the video, off you go.

Brilliant.

Some really creative rhythm being shown there, amazing.

And hopefully that's gonna help you remember those words better.

Great job.

Spotting a word in a word is also another really great strategy that can help us.

So you may spot the root word, but there could be other words that you could spot as well.

So you can copy out the spelling, again with the word in bigger letters, underlined or highlighted in colour.

Here we have the word extension.

I've broken it into ex, ten and on.

There's three parts there that I've spotted, three words in a word.

Then I've got ex-ten and on, nice.

And you can see I've coloured in the ten and the on and then I've written out bigger ten and on.

So spotting words in a word is really helpful.

And then you can copy out the spelling again with the word in bigger letters, underlined or highlighted in colour.

Dependent on how you want to do this.

You can be as creative as you like.

So it's gonna be your turn now.

I'd like you to try with one of these words.

My turn, your turn.

Invention.

Extension.

Permission.

Electrician.

See if you can spot any words in a word there and have a go with the strategies that I've just showed you.

Pause the video, off you go.

Excellent job team.

You've done a really good job there.

I can see loads of words and words being spotted, some great underlining, some great larger words being written and also some highlighting.

This helps us remember to break the words down into smaller chunks and it makes links between the words and it also helps us to spot some patterns.

So you're gonna have a go from now at spelling some words that contain the suffix shun.

It's gonna be a variety of different shun spellings here.

So be careful.

Remember to think of a root word.

Remember any spelling rules and to read the words and check them out loud.

So the first word is hesitation.

I completed the task without hesitation.

Number two is division.

Complete the division problem.

Number three is permission.

I was given permission to go on the trip.

And the final one is optician.

The optician gave me new glasses.

So I'll say this one more time.

Hesitation.

Division.

Permission.

Optician.

Pause the video and have a go writing those now.

Fantastic job team.

Really careful consideration of which shun spelling you are going to use there as the suffix.

I could see some real careful consideration of the root words and children reading back as well, and also some great presentation.

So let's see how you've done then.

The first one was hesitation.

Our root word there is hesitate, which ends in TE.

Sounds like it's probably our most common one than our T-I-O-N spelling, hesitation.

I think all of these make phonetic sense, but the correct one is this one here.

For our root word ends in TE, it's gonna be our T-I-O-N.

And remember, this is our most common representation of that shun spelling.

Division.

Now be careful with this one, division.

It's that zhun, isn't it? Which word can sometimes sound like zhun? Absolutely, it's our S-I-O-N.

And our root word there was divide DE.

So we're gonna remove that D and add our S-I-O-N.

The next one was permission.

Permission.

Permit is our root word here.

So we need to get rid of that T and then add our SS-I-O-N.

So it's permission SS-I-O-N for that shun.

And finally, optician.

An optician is a profession, isn't it? It's a job which we know most commonly has that C-I-A-N spelling.

Optician, there's no clear root word here.

It's derived from Latin here, optics meaning your eyes.

So optician is our C-I-A-N spelling because it's a job, optician.

Brilliant.

How did you do that? Did you make any magical mistakes? Do you have any corrections to make? Pause the video, share your learning and make those corrections now, off you go.

Onto our next learning cycle then, which is spelling curriculum words.

So let's read the following words.

They are all curriculum words, which means they're going to appear a lot in our reading and writing.

There's some elements to them that might be tricky to remember.

So this is why we're looking at them now.

My turn, your turn.

Potatoes.

Minute.

Breath.

So I'd like you to say those words one more time.

Have a look at the way they're spelled compared to how they sound.

Do you notice something about these spellings? Do you think there's anything tricky about them? Pause the video and have a think.

Brilliant.

I've noticed a few things.

Potatoes ends in ES.

It's the plural of potato and it's one of those plurals where you have to add an E before adding our S.

It has the words pot, at and also toes inside of it.

So a way to remember this is potatoes contains toes.

T-O-E-S.

Minute, it's a strange one, isn't it? That U-T-E spelling sounds like an it, doesn't it? Minute.

So it's not spelt in the way you'd expect it to be.

And here in breath, that E-A there is making an S sound, isn't it? Breath.

Eh, eh, like in head or bread.

It's making an eh sound.

So watch out for that.

So with those words in mind, have a look here.

Which of these curriculum words are spelled correctly that we've just looked at? Pause the video now and point to the correct spelling of potatoes.

Brilliant.

What does potatoes have in it? It has toes.

T-O-E-S doesn't it? So we have at, pot and toes.

Pot, at, toes.

Brilliant.

Minutes.

Let me think what was tricky about this one? What letters are spelling that it sound? Pause the video now and point to the correct spelling of minutes.

I'm sure you didn't need a minute to work that one out.

It's that U-T-E there that's making that it sound.

And finally breath, like the breath that I take.

Pause the video and point to the correct spelling of breath now.

Fantastic.

Remember it's a eh sound being made by the E-A.

Breath, th, th, T-H at the end there.

Breath.

Brilliant.

So as these curriculum words and they're gonna appear a lot in our reading and writing, it's really important that we are confident with using them.

So we're gonna use a strategy here to practise the three curriculum words we've looked at.

The look, cover, write, check strategy.

This works by looking carefully at the spelling.

So potatoes, thinking what's difficult about it or thinking anything you notice about it.

I notice pot, at and toes, okay? And it's a plural.

I then look at it carefully.

I then cover the spelling up.

I then have a go writing it and then I check back.

And I do this a number of times and I'm really making links then, putting my hand in my brain.

I use my best cursive handwriting.

So you should be familiar now with this look, cover, write, check strategy.

Have a go using it to practise writing out the words potatoes, minute and breath a number of times.

Pause the video, off you go.

Fantastic job.

So I'm hoping you've written out potatoes, minute, and breath a number of times just like this.

How did you get on with using that strategy? Do you have any corrections that you need to make now? Pause the video, make those corrections, off you go.

I really like that strategy 'cause it allows you to be independent and also it gives you a responsibility of self-checking.

It's a really good one to use when learning trickier words.

So onto our final learning cycle then, which is applying our spellings within a sentence, we are going to write a sentence containing some of our focus spellings now.

When we write the whole sentence, we need to do several things at once.

So let's really take our time.

We need to remember the whole sentence.

We need to stand out each word.

We need to think of our spelling rules we've been looking at for adding that shun suffix.

We need to look out for any common exceptional curriculum words.

So think about the words we've looked at today, like potatoes.

And finally we have to remember our sentence punctuation.

Not only capital letters and full stops, but any commas, apostrophes or other punctuation that might be in the sentence as well.

So I'd like you to listen to me say the sentence first of all.

Use your amazing hearing.

After two minutes, the beautician's speed and precision impressed everyone.

After two minutes, the beautician's speed and precision impressed everyone.

Great listening.

Remember, a beautician is a person whose job is to make things look beautiful.

Will give beauty treatments.

So we're gonna use some strategies now to help us remember this sentence.

The first is to repeat the sentence several times aloud.

After two minutes, the beautician's speed and precision impressed everyone.

Pause the video and say that sentence out loud a number of times now.

Excellent.

The next, picture what's happening in your head.

Remember beautician, someone who might be doing your hair, your nails, making someone look beautiful, okay? As I say it now, what picture you see in your head? Have a think.

After two minutes, the beautician's speed and precision impressed everyone.

Great.

And finally, counting how many words there are.

After two minutes, the beautician's speed and precision impressed everyone.

Pause the video now, count that out.

Make sure you're missing no words from our sentence.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

So you're gonna have a go now at writing the sentence.

Remember to sound out each word, look out for those common exception words and curriculum words.

And also to check your sentence punctuation.

I'm gonna say the sentence one more time for you.

After two minutes, the beautician's speed and precision impressed everyone.

Pause the video and write that now, off you go.

Excellent job team.

Really great work.

So some brilliant handwriting, some excellent application of not only our curriculum words, but some of those shun words as well.

So let's check our work and make any corrections as we go along.

After or after if you prefer.

Capital letter of course.

Two, T-W-O, minutes.

One of our curriculum words.

Remember it's that it made by the U-T-E.

Which added the S because we've made it plural, minutes.

And we have also a comma here, a comma to separate adverbial of time.

After two minutes, the beautician's.

Now beautician is a profession, so it's that C-I-A-N spelling, beautician.

The beautician's.

Here we have an apostrophe S 'cause this speed and precision belongs to them.

The beautician's speed and precision.

Watch out, precise there was our word ending in SE, our root word.

So we got rid of the E and then added our I-O-N to make precision.

It's that S-I-O-N spelling, precision.

And listen, it's that zhun as well there isn't it? Which we know S-I-O-N can be shun or zhun.

Impressed, SS there ED, everyone.

And of course a full stop.

So how did you do here? What have you learned? After two minutes, the beautician's speed and precision impressed everyone.

How did you do with our curriculum about minutes? How did you do beautician and precision? Pause the video, make any corrections now and share your learning.

Off you go.

Excellent spelling today team.

Today we've been looking at all of those shun suffixes, so lots going on in the lesson.

So you've done a really good job.

The shun suffix can be spelled T-I-O-N, S-I-O-N, SS-I-O-N or C-I-A-N.

The most common spelling is shun, T-I-O-N.

And these words often have a root word ending in T or TE.

Words spelled with S-I-O-N shun often have a root word ending in D or DE or SE.

And they can also sound like zhun, remember.

Words spelled with SS-I-O-N often have a root word ending in SS or MIT.

And words spelled with shun spelled C-I-A-N often have a root word ending in C or CS and are used for professions.

Keep up the great spelling, keep up the great practise and I'll see you again soon.