Lesson video

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to today's lesson.

My name is Mrs. Richards and in today's lesson, we are practising and applying and testing our knowledge of the -tion suffix.

So let's get started.

We'll start today's learning by recapping our understanding of the -tion suffix.

Then we'll learn a spelling practise strategy and at the end, we will have a test.

In this lesson you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil, and definitely your brain.

So pause the video now and go and get any resources.

Okay, let's get started by recapping our previous learning.

On the board are the three terms which we need to be able to use and understand in our lesson.

My turn, your turn.

Noun.

Root.

Suffix.

Good! Pause the video and give a definition of each of these terms. Tell the screen.

Off you go.

Okay, let's see how you got on.

A noun is a person, place, or thing.

Well done! Root means the most basic version of a word onto which the prefix or suffix is attached.

And suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that change its meaning and sometimes its word class.

A good start, well done.

Okay, on the board are the four spellings of the -tion suffix which we looked at in the last lesson.

Okay, let's see how you got on.

So we use the spelling S-I-O-N when the root words ends D, D-E, or S-E.

We use the spelling S-S-I-O-N when the root word ends double S or M-I-T.

Like permit becomes permission.

We use the spelling C-I-A-N.

when the root word ends in C or a C-S.

And when we are writing the name of a job, a profession, for example: musician, mathematician, magician, politician.

The last spelling T-I-O-N is used when the root word ends in a T or a T-E and that is our best bet.

It's the most common spelling of the -tion suffix.

So if you're not sure and there isn't a rule to follow, then that's the best choice.

Okay, next activity.

On the board you have the four rules which we explored in our last lesson.

I'm going to say aloud a word containing the -tion suffix and I want you to listen carefully to the word and see if you can spot a word within the word.

Can you hear the root word within my word? Are you ready? Exception.

Exception.

Have a go.

Can you hear the root word? I'll say it one more time then pause the video.

Exception.

Pause.

Okay, how did you get on? Could you hear that root word? Let's see.

The root word in exception was except.

I wonder which spelling I would need to spell that -tion suffix.

Would I need S-I-O-N? Well no, my root word doesn't end in a D or a D-E or an S-E.

How about C-I-A-N? No, my root word doesn't end in a C or a C-S and it's definitely not a profession or a job.

Ah look! My root word ends in a T so I think I need the ending T-I-O-N.

Should we see if I got it right? Yes! Except becomes exception and it's spelled T-I-O-N.

Next one.

Expansion.

Expansion.

In a moment I'm going to say it one more time.

Your job is to pause the video and say aloud the root word that you can hear inside my word.

Then I want you to decide which ending, which -tion suffix I should be using.

Here's the word one more time.

Expansion.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay, how did you get on? What root word could you hear inside expansion? Expand.

Yes, hopefully you heard expand.

Now, which spelling of the -tion suffix would I need? Have a look at the rules on the board, can you point to the one? Yeah, well done! Expand will become expansion when it's spelled S-I-O-N.

That's because our root word ends in a D or a D-E or an S-E.

Okay, let's try another.

Your third word, here it comes.

Politician.

Politician.

Here's a clue, I'm going to put it inside a sentence for you.

I would love to work as a politician.

Okay, see if you can hear the root word and can you work out which spelling I need of the -tion suffix? Go! Okay, what was the root word within politician? Politics! That's right! So point to the ending on the screen that we're going to need.

Let's see! Yes, hopefully you got it right.

Politician will be spelled with the suffix C-I-A-N.

That's because the root word ends in a C-S but also because it's a job, a profession.

Okay, let's try one more.

Your word is discussion.

Discussion.

See if you can hear the root word and point to the correct spelling.

Have a go now.

Okay, how did you get on? What was the root word in discussion? Hopefully you could hear discuss.

Okay, point to the spelling on the board which I'll need for the -tion suffix.

Let's have a look.

Yes, discuss ends in double S so I know that my ending must be S-S-I-O-N.

Okay, well done! That was some great practise of our rules.

Now I'm going to teach you a spelling practise strategy.

Our strategy for today is called colour blocking.

Here are the instructions.

Read the word aloud, look closely at the word.

How would you break it into chunks? Would you use syllables? Do you see particular letters as being part of the same chunk? Colour or highlight each chunk differently.

Make sure you can still read the letters.

So in the word collision, there are some letters that look to me as if they belong together.

They should go in a chunk by themselves.

And I'm going to colour them a certain colour.

In my first attempt I chose to put the letters C-O-L-L inside one chunk and I coloured that part yellow.

To me, it looked like that letter I in the middle of the word was all by itself so I put it inside its own box and coloured it green.

I wanted to colour the suffix all in one colour so I could remember that it's a -sion suffix so I put that in pink.

Then I had a go at doing it another way.

I looked closely at my word and I thought, in fact, maybe the C and the O should be blue and the double L should be yellow and then the I could be green and the -sion suffix could be pink.

There are no right or wrong answers.

How you see these letters might be different to how I see them or anybody else.

You can't get this wrong.

It's about looking closely at the words and trying to group letters together to help us remember.

So why is this a useful strategy? It causes us to interact with the word.

The colour coding helps our memory and it allows us to break the word into smaller chunks.

Okay, your turn.

Here are the instructions and our spelling words are on the board.

Choose some words and have a go at colour blocking.

Pause the video.

Okay, I hope that you explored lots of different ways to colour block those words.

And I hope that you're finding that a useful strategy.

The next thing we're going to do is our spelling test.

If you think you're ready for the test, then great! We can get started.

But if you want more time to practise, that's absolutely fine.

Take as much time as you need.

Pause the video here and come back to the test later.

Okay, if you're ready to start the test, here are some instructions to help you.

First thing to remember: pause, take a deep breath, and take as much time as you need.

If you're unsure of how to spell a word, try writing the word more than once and then consider which spelling looks right.

If you're unsure, try writing the word more than once and then sound out the different spellings.

Consider which spelling sounds right.

To start the test, you need a clean piece of paper and a pencil.

You need to put the numbers one to ten in the margin or down the side of the page.

Make sure you can't see your spelling words anywhere.

Pause the video now and get ready.

Okay, ready to start? I'll read each word twice and I'll put the word in a sentence to help you.

Pause the video as much as you need, and remember those strategies.

Number one, nation.

Nation.

A nation is a group of people.

Pause if you need to.

Number two, completion.

Completion.

My work is nearing completion.

Number three, attention.

Attention This spelling test needs your full attention.

You're doing really well.

Pause the video whenever you need to if you want more time.

Spelling number four, intention.

Intention.

It is my intention to go running today.

Number five, decision.

Decision.

I need to make a difficult decision.

Well done, pause the video whenever you need to.

Number six, confusion.

Confusion.

I hope there is no confusion over your spellings.

Number seven, collision.

Collision.

The car was involved in a collision.

Well done, pause the video whenever you need to.

Number eight, confession.

Confession.

I have a confession to make-- I stole the last biscuit.

Number nine, admission.

Admission.

You have to pay for admission to the cinema.

Well done, pause whenever you need to.

Last spelling coming up.

Number ten, mathematician.

Mathematician.

A mathematician works with numbers.

Well done, your spelling test is finished.

Now pause the video and go back and carefully check the spelling of each of the words in our test.

If you need more time to practise, then do it.

Try writing the word more than once and think about which one looks right and which one sounds right.

Pause now if you need to, otherwise we'll mark our spellings.

Word number one, nation.

N-A-T-I-O-N.

Look carefully at your word.

Tick it if you got it right and if not, don't worry but self-correct it now.

The important thing is that we learn from our mistakes.

So errors don't matter, it's about what we do then that really counts.

Number two, completion.

C-O-M-P-L-E-T-I-O-N.

Self-correct, pause the video.

Number three, attention.

A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N.

Self-correct, pause the video.

Intention.

I-N-T-E-N-T-I-O-N.

Self-correct, pause the video.

Number five, decision.

D-E-C-I-S-I-O-N.

Self-correct, pause the video.

You're doing brilliantly, well done! Five done, five to go.

Number six, confusion.

C-O-N-F-U-S-I-O-N.

Self-correct, pause the video.

Number seven, collision.

C-O-double L-I-S-I-O-N.

I'll read that one again.

C-O-L-L-I-S-I-O-N.

Well done if you're self-correcting.

Brilliant.

Pause the video.

Number eight, confession.

C-O-N-F-E-S-S-I-O-N.

Self-correct, pause the video.

Admission.

A-D-M-I-S-S-I-O-N.

Self-correct, pause the video.

Number ten, mathematician.

M-A-T-H-E-M-A-T-I-C-I-A-N.

Wow, that's a long word! Self-correct, pause the video.

Well done, everybody! Take as much time as you need here to check through each of your spellings carefully and make any corrections.

The important thing is at the end of the test you have each word written correctly.

Well done! So, things to remember: One, be proud of how much you practised.

Did you practise every day for ten minutes? Number two, be proud of the number of practise strategies that you used.

Did you try letter blocking? Did you try saying your letters aloud? Did you try pinning them around the house so you could always see them? Number three, be proud of how you're paying close attention to words in your reading and writing.

I wonder if you've seen any of our spelling words around you this week.

Number four, in misspelt words, look at how many letters you spelled correctly as well as the letters which were wrong.

I often hear children say, "I can't spell that word." And it's just not true! You can often spell the first few letters or maybe the last letter or perhaps the letters in the middle.

There's no such thing as a good or a bad speller.

We're all improving all the time.

So remember, learning comes from mistakes.

You might not be able to spell this word yet, but keep practising.

Well done, everybody, for today.

I look forward to seeing you again next time.

Bye!.