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Hello, and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss, I love spelling and 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 thing to write with and write on and someone or something to talk to you would also be great.

Well, let's get straight into today's spelling lesson then.

In this spelling lesson, we're gonna be looking at the shun suffixes, including C-I-A-N, cian.

I can spell words using the suffix -cian will be our outcome.

Here are the key words for today's learning, my turn, your turn.

Make sure I can hear you saying these back to me.

Noun.

Root word.

Suffix.

Brilliant.

Keep an eye and a ear out for these as they are key in today's learning.

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

The root word is the base word from which other words are formed, often by adding prefixes or suffixes, and today we're gonna be adding a suffix.

And a suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning and create a new word.

Today we're adding the C-I-A-N, cian suffix.

And that creates nouns.

Here's the outline.

We're looking at the -cian suffixes, including C-I-A-N.

We're gonna begin by using that suffix, then we're gonna spell some curriculum words, and finally, we're gonna apply spellings within a sentence of loads of the words that we've looked at today.

So let's get on with using that shun suffix spelled C-I-A-N.

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

Unlike prefixes, which come at the start of words, suffixes, which come at the end, often change a word tense or word class.

Here we have the root word kind, and I've added my ness suffix to create the word, kindness, a new word.

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

And here we have the root word deep, which is an adjective.

If I add deepen or en to create that word deepen, it's now a verb, which means to make or become deeper.

So suffixes can both change the tense or word class.

They can also change the spelling of that root word in some instances.

These examples don't, but they can.

There are lots of different types of suffix and there are lots of different types of shun suffix, and today we're concentrating on the C-I-A-N spelling of that shun suffix.

Remember, different suffixes can create new words and change the word class of the root word too.

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

Here we have musician, a person who plays music for a living.

It's their job, their profession.

Notice this is the suffix, spelling that we are going to look at today, C-I-A-N.

Be careful with this 'cause it's there I-A-N, there's no O there.

Often when you hear that shun sound, you might expect it to be an O-N ending.

Here we have passion, that S-S-I-O-N.

Here we have exploration, that common T-I-O-N representation for that shun suffix.

And here we have extension, the S-I-O-N.

See what I mean here? Passion, S-S-I-O-N, exploration, T-I-O-N, and extension, S-I-O-N, all have an O-N, whereas the suffix we are concentrating on today, like in the word musician, the C-I-A-N spelling has an A, not an O for that, shun.

The spelling shun spelled T-I-O-N is the most common, and is your best bet if you hear a word that you don't know and it ends in shun, it's most likely the T-I-O-N spelling.

We are gonna look now, carefully, at some rules that you may know or may not know about adding these shun suffixes.

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 root word, so that word onto which we're adding the suffix can give us a clue about how to spell the shun suffix.

'Cause remember we've got four shun suffixes, haven't we? So if the root word ends in a t or te, these are most common.

We have our shun T-I-O-N spelling.

So if the root word ends in t or te, it's probably the T-I-O-N spelling.

If the root word ends in d, de, or se, it's a S-I-O-N, shun.

And also remember, this can sometimes sound like a zion like in the word division with the S-I-O-N spelling.

And if the root word ends in a ss or an mit, then it'll be the S-S-I-O-N spelling for that shun.

What do you notice about the meaning of these words ending in the suffix shun spelled C-I-A-N? So that's suffix that we are concentrating on today.

My turn, your turn.

Musician, physician, electrician, magician, optician, politician, mathematician.

So, what do you notice about the meaning of these words that end in our shun suffix spelled C-I-A-N.

Pause the video and have a think.

Wonderful seeing you all have a think there.

Well, I've noticed they're all professions, aren't they? They're all jobs that someone might do.

A musician is a person who plays music for a living.

An electrician is someone who fixes electrical problems for a living.

A magician is someone who does magic trick for a living.

An optician is someone who looks at your eyes for a living.

A politician is someone who works in politics, and a mathematician is someone who works in maths.

So they are all what we would call professions.

Now notice here professions has that S-S-I-O-N spelling.

Remember, the spelling we are looking at today makes that shun sound, but is spelled C-I-A-N.

Do you recognise a root word for each of these words ending in our suffix C-I-A-N, shun? Musician.

My turn, your turn.

Musician, politician, electrician.

Do you recognise any root words here? They might be spelled a little bit differently.

Pause the video and have a think.

Brilliant.

Well, I can see a musician, there's the root word, music.

In politician, there will be politics.

And in electrician there's electric.

What do you notice about the ending of these root words? Is there a common pattern here? Pause the video.

Have a look at the root words underneath now, what do they end in? Okay.

Well I can see that we have two that end in c, music and electric.

And we also have one that ends in cs, politics.

So they end in c or cs.

So this might be what we can add to that list of rules we saw earlier for the different shun sounds.

When the root word ends in a c or cs, then we're going to add our shun spelled as C-I-A-N, and it's going to be a profession.

So, what have we discovered so far then? Let's think back on these different rules that we've looked at for adding the shun suffix spelled in different ways.

The last letter or letters of the root word can give us a clue about how to spell that shun suffix.

'Cause remember there's four different ways that we've looked at spelling that suffix.

If the root word ends in a t or te, then it'll be that shun spelled T-I-O-N.

If the root word ends in a d, de, or se, then it will be that shun spelled S-I-O-N.

And remember that that can also make shun or zion sound like division.

If the root word ends in a ss or mit, then it's our shun spelled S-S-I-O-N, like permission.

And we've now looked at our root word for professions or jobs.

If the root word ends in a c or cs, we know it's gonna be our shun spelled C-I-A-N.

Remember, I-A-N.

So, let's have a look at this.

Politician, our root word here is politics.

So we spell it c, it has a cs root word ending, so we then spell it with a C-I-A-N.

Here we have musician, our root word there is music ending with a c, so I spell it C-I-A-N.

It's making the same shun sound, but has that A-N spelling, remember.

Don't forget it is C-I-A-N that a there is a letter that might trip you up when making that shun.

So I'd like you to write in or say the related profession ending in the suffix C-I-A-N.

So we have our root words, politics, music, electrics, magic, and mathematics, all ending in c or cs.

So we're gonna use our shun spelled C-I-A-N to make some professions.

Have a go with saying the professions by adding that shun suffix now or writing them.

Pause the video, off you go.

Brilliant.

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

Politics became politician, music became musician, electrics became electrician, magic became magician, and mathematics became magician.

Remember, they all end in c or cs, and then we add our shun, but C-I-A-N make a profession a job, which they all are.

They're also all nouns.

So with that in mind, I'd like us to have a go at spelling some professions using the shun suffix spelled C-I-A-N.

Think about, is there a root word? What is that root word ended, c or cs? Remember any of the rules that we've looked at and could you have a go at reading your word aloud once you've written it to see if you think it's spelt right, if it sounds right in the way that you spelt it.

So listen out for these professions now that I'm going to say.

The first one is musician.

The musician played their guitar.

Number two is the electrician.

The electrician fixed the socket.

Number three is magician.

The magician played a magic trick.

And finally number four is optician.

The optician checked my eyes.

So listen to these once again, we have musician, electrician, magician, optician.

Pause the video, and have a go at writing those professions now.

Excellent work there.

Really good consideration if there are any root words, great memory, that these were all nouns and that they were professions or jobs.

And really great memory that we're using that shun spelled C-I-A-N today to create these professions.

So the first one we looked at was musician.

Our root word here is music, isn't it? Music.

The spelling of that root word is not going to change here, is it? It's got a c at the end, I'm gonna add my I-A-N, musician.

Remember, shun spelled I-A-N today.

It's that job, someone who plays music for a living.

The next one was electrician.

Our root word here is electric, similar to musician ending in a c.

And that's that shun spelled C-I-A-N.

Electrician, someone who will come and work with the electrics.

Then a magician, somebody who works in magic who plays us magic tricks for a living, magician.

Again, it's that profession, so it's that shun, C-I-A-N.

And our root word is magic ending in a c.

Spelling of that root word's not going to change, magician.

And here we have optician.

Optics is something to do with your eyes.

An optician is someone who will check your eyes, looks after your eyes, where you might go to get your glasses, an opticians.

So opticians, optic, they are optics, how something looks.

Optics ending in cs, so we're gonna remove that s and add a I-A-N 'cause it's profession, optician.

So O-P-T-I-C-I-A-N, optician.

How did you do here with these professions? Remember, they're all nouns with this shun suffix.

Make any corrections now.

Pause the video.

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

So let's read the following words.

My turn, your turn.

Eighth.

Eighth.

I came eighth in the race.

Weight.

What is your weight? Knowledge.

Knowledge.

By the end of this lesson, you'll have lots of spelling knowledge.

Have a look at these words for me.

They're curriculum words, so they're gonna appear a lot in our reading and writing, and it's important that we know how to spell them.

There's some elements of these words that are a little bit tricky.

Have a go at saying them again.

Have a think about their spelling, what do you notice about them? Pause the video, and have a think now.

Brilliant.

I've noticed a few things about these words.

In eighth, there's that E-I-G-H for that a sound.

Now, we can use a word family here.

If I know the spelling of the number eight, I know the spelling of the eighth or eighty or eighteen.

The words are connected in meaning and spelling.

So it's that E-I-G-H for that a sound.

It's the same in weight.

Weight also has that E-I-G-H making that a sound like in the word eight or eighth, and also in the word neighbour.

It's that E-I-G-H, so be careful with that one.

And knowledge is made from the words no and ledge.

That's the way to remember that spelling.

If you know how to spell new or no, they're part of that same word family with that K-N-O-W spelling there, know, to do with you knowing something.

And I always remember it as no and ledge spells knowledge.

Like a ledge that might hang out from a wall or a cliff.

No, ledge spells knowledge.

So with that in mind, with these curriculum words in mind, how do we spell them? What was tricky about them? Here's our first one.

How do I spell eighth? I ate an eighth of the pizza, a fraction.

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

Great.

Remember, if you know how to spell eight, you'll know how to spell eighth.

It's got that T-H, T-H at the end, T-H.

Eighth.

And it's that E-I-G-H making that a sound, isn't it? Eighth, E-I-G-H-T-H, eighth.

If we know how to spell eighth and we know that a is spelling there, it might help us with this word, weight.

Now be careful 'cause there's homophones for this word.

I don't mean wait there, I mean what is your weight? How much something weighs? Pause the video, point to the correct spelling of weight now.

Brilliant.

Wa eight, so it's got a wa eight at the end, and that a sound is our E-I-G-H spelling there, weight like in the word neighbour as well.

And finally, knowledge.

Knowledge.

Two words make up this word.

That's how I remember it.

Pause the video, and points to the correct spelling of knowledge now.

Brilliant.

So, no and ledge makeup knowledge.

And remember, it's no with that silent K there, at the beginning.

And it's to do with knowledge up here.

If you now how to spell know or new, they're part of that word family.

No, ledge spells knowledge.

So these are really important words.

As I've said, they're curriculum words that are gonna appear a lot on our reading and writing.

I want you to be confident with spelling them.

And a great strategy when looking at these words, that also have tricky bits about them and don't have spelling patterns is the look, cover, write, check strategy.

We can use this strategy independently and repetitively to really embed these spellings into our memory.

And the way the strategy works is by looking first of all the spelling.

So if I look at eighth and think what's tricky about that where I've got my E-I-G-H for that a sound and I know the spelling of eight, I know the spelling of eight and it's got that T-H at the end eighth, I look at it, I then cover it up, got it in my head, E-I-G-H-T-H, eighth.

I then have a go at writing it and then I uncover it and look back at my original spelling to check.

If I've made any mistakes, I can make corrections, and I go again.

And even if I get it right, I'll keep doing this a number of times and really work on that memory between my hand, my best handwriting and my brain till I've really embedded that spelling.

So I want you now to have a go using the look, cover, write, check strategy with eighth, weight, and knowledge.

Remember to look carefully at spellings and consider what's difficult about them.

Pause the video, off you go using that strategy.

Excellent job team.

Some really lovely handwriting I can see there and some really correct spelling and some great look, cover, write, checking going on.

I love this strategy because it allows you to be independent and it's repetitive and it really, really stick that spelling into a long-term memory.

So how did you do? Did you manage to spell all of them correctly? Do you have any corrections to make? Pause the video, share your look, cover, write, checking, and make any corrections now.

Off you go.

Onto our final learning cycle then, which is going to be applying spellings within a sentence.

We are now going to have a go at writing a sentence containing some of our focus spellings.

What have we been focusing on today? We've been focusing on that shun suffix, specifically the C-I-A-N spelling of that shun suffix, which creates professions or jobs.

When we write the whole sentence, we have to do several things at once, so let's really take our time.

We're gonna need to remember that whole sentence that I say and we'll say it a number of times.

We're gonna sound out each word to make sure we're making our best efforts of our spelling.

We'll think of our spelling rules.

So remember, when we add that shun, what were our rules? And then looking out for these common exception and curriculum words.

We looked at three curriculum words today.

And finally, remembering our sentence punctuation, not only capital letters and full stops, but any other punctuation in that sentence as well.

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

Listen to me carefully.

Use your great hearing and listen.

The optician and musician had impressive knowledge in their fields.

The optician and musician had impressive knowledge in their fields.

So, let's have a go at saying this sentence now, a number of times using a variety of strategies.

The first one is repeating the sentence several times out loud.

I'll say it one more time, and then you have a go at repeating it until you know it.

The optician and musician had impressive knowledge in their fields.

Pause the video, and say that a number of times now.

Brilliant.

Now by fields I don't mean green, grassy fields.

Fields are those areas within which they work.

Because remember we've been looking at that shun suffix that makes professions.

The next one is picturing what's happening in your head.

Think of a musician and an optician.

Someone who plays music and someone who works on your eyes.

The optician and musician had impressive knowledge in their fields.

Pause the video.

Say that, and picture something in your head now, off you go.

And finally, we're gonna count the words, making sure we don't miss any out.

The optician and musician had impressive knowledge in their fields.

I make that 10.

Pause the video.

See if you make it 10 when you count out each word, off you go.

So, I'm gonna have a go now at saying this sentence one more time in the moment, and then you are gonna have a chance to write it.

Just remember to sound out each word, think about any common exceptional curriculum words, and don't forget your sentence punctuation.

The optician and musician had impressive knowledge in their fields.

Pause the video, write that sentence for me down.

Amazing.

You've done a fantastic job there team.

Some brilliant punctuating, some great spelling using our shun suffix we've concentrated on today.

And also, some careful spelling of some of those trickier common, exceptional curriculum words.

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

Let's check our work as we go along.

The, needs to have a capital letter.

Optician, so optics was our root word there.

Cs, we know is then gonna end in our shun, it's a profession.

C-I-A-N, be careful not O-N, A-N.

And musician, again, our root word music, we're making a profession.

Somebody who does music for a living.

So that shun, C-I-A-N.

Had impressive.

Now be careful with this word s-s and then an E at the end.

Knowledge.

No, ledge spells knowledge.

In their.

And it's these fields belong to them, it's where they work.

So E-I-R Possessive their, showing possession.

Fields, F-I-E-L-D-S.

Remember, I before E except after c fields, there making that E sound.

It's a bit of a tricky one, so be careful.

Full stop, of course.

The optician and musician had impressive knowledge in their fields.

So we had two professions here with that shun suffix about C-I-A-N, musician and optician.

And then we had that curriculum word, knowledge.

How did you do? What success have you had? Did you make any natural mistakes that you can learn from? Share those now and make any corrections.

Pause the video.

So really great job in spelling today, everyone.

We've been using that suffix -cian today.

Words ending in that shun are nouns and they're a profession, a job that someone does.

The shun suffix can be spelled in a number of ways, which can be a bit confusing.

We can have T-I-O-N, S-I-O-N, S-S-I-O-N or C-I-A-N, the one we concentrated on today.

The words spelled with shun spelled T-I-O-N, often have a root word ending in t or te.

Word spelled with that shun spelled S-I-O-N, that can also make a zion sound often have a root word ending in d, de or se.

Word spelled with the S-S-I-O-N, shun often have a root word ending in ss or mit.

And word spelled with shun, C-I-A-N, the one we looked at today for professions often have a root word ending in c or cs, like magic becomes magician.

Great job, everyone.

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