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Hello, and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss, 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, something to write with and write on would be great, and having something or someone to talk to would also be excellent.

Let's get right into today's spelling lesson, then.

In this spelling lesson, we're going to be using the suffixes <v ->cian, -sion, and -ssion to represent shun.

</v> 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.

Suffix.

Root word.

Noun.

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

A suffix is a letter or group of letters that 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, often by adding prefixes or suffixes.

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

So adding shun suffixes to the end of root words often creates nouns, and that's what we're going to concentrate on doing today.

So our lesson outline is all the shun suffixes.

We're gonna begin by looking at all of them, then we're gonna spell some curriculum words, and finally, we'll get to apply the spellings that we've been looking at today within a sentence.

I'm really looking forward to that final learning cycle.

So all of the shun suffixes.

A suffix member is a letter or group of letters that be added to the end of a word which creates another word.

Unlike prefixes, which come at the beginning, suffixes often changed the word's tense or word class.

Let's look at some suffixes in action.

Here I have my root word, admire.

It becomes admiration.

Notice there how the spelling of my root word has changed somewhat.

Here we have the root word joy.

I have my -ful suffix and it becomes the new word, joyful.

And finally, we have deep.

I add my -en suffix to create the word deepen.

Where it was an adjective, it is now a verb.

The suffix here has changed the word's word class.

There are lots of different types of suffixes, and remember, today that we're looking at shun suffixes and different suffixes, remember, can also create words with different word classes.

Bear that in mind today.

Suffixes which create adjectives include -er, -est, -ous, -al, and -ic, and I'm sure you'll recognise some of these from your previous learning.

The greener, seasonal apples are the sweetest.

He is a famous and dramatic actor.

Famous and dramatic here describe the actor.

Suffixes which create verbs include -en, -ate, -ify, and -ise.

When you thicken the soup, it will intensify the flavour.

They're doing words.

Please clarify the instructions before we finalise the plan.

So if it's a doing or being word, it's a verb.

And suffixes which create nouns include -tion, like we're looking at today, -tion, -ity, and -ness.

The celebration brought happiness to the community, all nouns.

Some of them may be abstract nouns, the charity were grateful for the large donation.

Again, nouns.

With this in mind, can you match the words to the word class? The suffixes will help you.

Remember that a noun is a PPT, a person, place or thing.

But whether that we can also have abstract nouns.

A verb is a doing, being or having word.

And an adjective describes a noun.

Match these words, prioritise acidic, natural, and explanation to their correct word class, look carefully at the suffix.

Off you go.

Great job team.

So prioritise.

You must prioritise what is important to you.

Prioritise is a verb.

That's -ise suffix creates verbs.

Acidic.

That is an acidic drink.

Acidic is an adjective.

It's a describing word, that -ic suffix, natural, he is a natural beauty, that is an adjective as well.

And explanation, explain was our root word here.

A verb.

We've added our -ation suffix, it's become a noun.

It's changed word class.

Explanation is a noun.

There are several ways of spelling the suffix which sounds like shun, make that sound for me now! Shun, great.

We have a word like beautician here.

Someone whose jobs is to beautify someone to make them more beautiful.

This is an occupation.

Our shun here is spelled C-I-A-N.

Passion.

P-A-S-S-I-O-N, can also represent that shun.

Exploration.

T-I-O-N can also represent that shun.

And finally, precision.

Precision, S-I-O-N can also represent that shun.

The spelling, T-I-O-N, is the most common and is your best bet for spelling that word if you hear it at the end of a word.

But there are four ways, four key ways that we are looking at spelling it.

Be careful also with the S-I-O-N spelling 'cause that can often make a zhun sound as well, as opposed to a shun.

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

The last letter or letters of the root word can give you a clue about how to spell the shun suffix, our -tion shun root words ending in t or te.

And it's our most common, remember.

For our -sion spelling, the root words often end in a d, de, or se.

I remember that this spelling can also make a zhun sound as well, like the word division, our double -ssion spelling for shun, the root words most commonly end in ss or mit.

And our -cian spelling, our root word ends in c or cs.

And these are professions, jobs that people do.

Do you recognise a root word for these words ending in shun spelled -tion? Invention, hesitation, education, position.

Pause the video and have a think.

Do you see any root words here? Off you go.

Great, remember, spotting that rework can help us with the spelling.

In invention, I can see invent, in hesitate, in hesitation, sorry, I can see hesitate, in education I know educate is my root word.

Position doesn't have a clear root word, but we've derived this word from Latin.

The word posito, meaning to put, like in the word deposit.

So our shun, -tion, our root words commonly end in t and te, invent, hesitate and educate show this.

Remember that this is also our most common and best bet spelling for that shun sound at the end of a word.

Do you recognise a root word for these words ending in shun, spelled -sion or zhun.

Division, remember this -sion spelling can also make a zhun sound too.

Tension.

That's it making that shun.

Extension and decision.

Again, zhun.

Pause the video and have a think.

Do you recognise any root words here? Great, well, I've noticed divide, tense, extend and decide.

I can see here that my root words end in de, se, d and de.

So our -sion spelling, which can also make that zhun sound.

Our root words tend to end in d, de or se.

Try and remember that.

Do you recognise a root word for these words ending in -ssion for that shun sound.

We have discussion, permission and impression.

Pause the video and have a think.

Great job team.

In discussion, I can see discuss, in permission, I can see permit, and in impression I can see impress.

So for our -ssion spelling for shun, our root words tend to end in ss, mit and ss.

So remember, our double -ssion, root words ending in ss or mit.

And finally, there are many words ending in shun, <v ->tion, -sion, and -ssion,</v> which don't have an obvious root word.

Vision, for instance, which makes that zhun sound with that -sion spelling, passion, which doesn't have a clear root word.

Television again has that vis in it, doesn't it? And station.

Sometimes these have Latin roots like vis, meaning to see, in the words vision or television or statio in station, which is a Latin for being still.

And if something stationary, it is not moving.

Do you recognise a root word for these words ending in shun spelled -cian? Our professions, our jobs.

Musician, politician, electrician.

Pause the video.

Do you recognise any root words? Great, in musician I can see music, in politician I can see politics, and in electrician I can see electric.

So here we have words ending in c, cs, and c.

So the root words when adding our suffix -cian, tend to end in c, cs.

And you'll notice they're all professions or jobs.

So with that learning in mind, could you match the spelling of the shun suffix to the clue that helps us to spell it.

We have our -tion, -sion, -ssion and -cian.

Read the clues and match 'em now, off you go.

Great job team.

So our -tion suffix, that likes root words which end in a t or te, and remember is our most common best bet spelling for that shun sound.

Our -sion, which remember, can make a zhun or a shun sound that likes root words which end in d, de or se.

Our -ssion spelling is commonly found after root words ending in ss or mit, like the word permission.

And musician has our -cian, music is our root word there, ending in c or cs.

And remember, these are professions.

So can you spot the root word? We're gonna kind of reverse engineer it now.

I'm gonna show you the word that has the suffix.

I want you to see if you can spot the root word and can you work out which spelling pattern we have applied? Here is our word action.

What's the root word here? And which rule or pattern have we applied? Pause the video now.

Off you go.

Our root word then is act, A-C-T.

And the rule that we've applied here is, a, here, our root word ending in t or te and then adding our -tion suffix.

Our next is decision.

Can you think of what the root word may have been here and which rule has been applied? Pause the video.

Great, our root word was decide, ending in de.

You can see here that we've removed that and then added our -sion for that zhun, decision.

It is rule b here.

Root words ending in d, de or se.

Remember that S-I-O-N spelling can make a shun or a zhun sound.

The next word is discussion.

What's the root word? Which rule have we applied? Pause the video.

Great, absolutely.

We here have got the root word discuss ending in that ss, so we've used our rule here, root words ending in ss or mit, and this word here, mathematician.

What's our root word here? Pause the video.

Great.

Brilliant job team.

So our root word here is mathematics ending in that cs.

And it's a profession as well.

So it's that C-I-A-N spelling.

When practising these spellings, it can help to sing, rap or clap to a rhythm.

I'll clap and spell these words.

In-vent-i-o-n for invention, ex-ten-s-i-o-n.

This helps us by breaking the words into smaller chunks and focusing on the tricky parts.

You try with one of these words now, hesitation, extension, discussion, musician.

Try breaking the word down and clapping it up to a rhythm or a beat.

Off you go.

Fantastic job team.

Some really, really good work there.

Spotting a word in a word can also help us.

You may spot the root word, but there could be other words that you can spot.

You can copy out the spelling again with the word in bigger letters, underlined or highlighted in colours.

Here is the word I've done with this, extension, ext-ten, and on.

Ex-ten-sion.

I've made bigger here and coloured the ten and the on.

You can try with one of these words now.

Invention, extension, permission, electrician.

See if you can spot a word in a word and have a go using that strategy of copying out.

Maybe highlight it in colour or writing it bigger.

Off you go.

Fantastic job team.

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

For our practise task now, we're going to spell some words that contain that shun suffix spelled in a number of different ways.

Remember to sound it out, think of the root word.

Think of the spelling rules we've looked at.

So what that root word will end in.

And also read the word and check out loud.

The first word is decision.

With that zhun, I need to make a decision.

Hmm, number two is electrician.

The electrician came to my house and fixed the switch.

Number three, discussion.

Our root word there, discuss, discussion.

Number four, hesitation and number five, extension.

So I'll say those again, decision electrician, discussion, hesitation, extension.

Really take your time and consider which shun or zhun spelling is being used at the end there.

Off you go.

Excellent job team, really, really careful application of our different shun suffixes there.

Great job, some beautiful handwriting and really good reading and checking.

So the first one was decision.

Our root word here is decide ending in de, which means it's our -sion.

Remember that S-I-O-N spelling can make a shun or a zhun sound like in decision.

Number two is electrician.

Electric is our root word here, that ic.

It's also a profession, isn't it, a job.

So it's that C-I-A-N spelling, shun spelled C-I-A-N.

The next one was discussion.

Discuss is our root word here.

Discuss ends in -ssion! If we have our ss, it means it's gonna be our S-S-I-O-N spelling, discussion.

Hesitation was the next one.

Hesitate, which has an s in the middle, hesitate ending in te.

So our spelling will be hesitation here.

Remove that te and add our T-I-O-N spelling.

Extension was the next one.

Extend is our root word here, ending in that d.

So extension is our root word, -sion there.

Brilliant job.

How did you do there? Make any corrections now, off you go.

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

Those curriculum words are words which will appear lots in our reading and writing.

They might have slightly tricky elements to them.

So it's really important we know how to spell them confidently.

So I'm gonna practise some now.

Let's begin by reading some, my turn your turn.

Possession, something that is your possession is something that belongs to you.

Has that shun, doesn't it? Occasion, again, there's a zhun there isn't there with that S-I-O-N spelling.

And occasionally or occasionally, something that doesn't happen that often.

So what do you notice about these spellings? Is there anything difficult or tricky about them? Have a look at 'em again, say 'em again, have a think.

Great.

So I've noticed a few things, in possession, there's two ss's in it and our, 'cause our root word here is possess.

So we are adding our -ion for that -ssion suffix, possession.

Occasion has a double C in it that we need to remember and it's an S-I-O-N spelling at the end, representing that zhun sound.

There's no obvious root word there either.

And occasionally has that word occasion, init? And we've added our -ly suffix onto the end.

It's become occasionally, a bit like the words personally or emotionally.

We don't always clearly hear that a in it either.

I don't say occasionally.

I quite often say occasionally.

So you don't always hear that a, remember, it's an -ally, like personally or emotionally.

Great, take a snapshot of these now because I'm gonna test you on them just in a second! Brilliant! Okay, are you ready to point to the correct spelling of those curriculum words that we just looked at? Possession, point to it now! Great! What does it have, two lots of ss 'cause possess is our root word, possession.

P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-O-N, with that -ssion for that shun.

Occasion, point to it now! Great! We've got a cc here, haven't we? And then our, a, and then a S-I-O-N.

Our S-I-O-N is making a zhun sound now remember, remember that S-I-O-N spelling can make a shun or a zhun.

And occasionally.

Pause the video and point to it now! Great, remember it's that -ally.

We've got the root word occasion here and we've added the -ally onto the end.

So because these curriculum words really important that we're confident with spelling them.

So we're gonna need to read, write, and spell them a lot.

So we need to use our look, cover, write, check strategy now to practise them.

This is where you look carefully at the spelling.

Consider what's difficult about it.

Possession, oh two lots of ss and an -ion at the end.

I then cover it up so I can't see it and I test myself and write it in my neatest handwriting.

And then I check back and see how I did.

And I do this a number of times until it's really embedded into my long-term memory.

So I'm going to pause the video and use our look, cover, write, check strategy now, off you go! Great job team.

So I'm hoping that you've written 'em out a number of times like this.

Remember in possession we've got the -ssion, in occasion we've got the cc, and it's the S-I-O-N making that zhun and in occasionally we've got that -ally after our root word occasion.

Onto our final learning cycle for today then which is applying our spellings that we've been looking at so far today within a sentence.

We are going to write a sentence containing some of our focus spellings.

When we write the whole sentence we have to do several things at once so make sure you're ready for this, perhaps even have a brain break.

We need to remember the whole sentence.

We need to sound out each word.

We need to think of our spelling rules.

We also need to look out for common exception and curriculum words and we also need to remember our sentence punctuation, capital letters, full stops and any other punctuation.

I'd like you to just, I'd like you to just listen to me say the sentence first of all a few times.

Just listen using your incredible hearing.

Occasionally the politicians have a discussion to determine the future of education policy.

Occasionally the politicians have a discussion to determine the future of education policy.

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

The first one is to repeat the sentence several times out loud.

Occasionally the politicians have a discussion to determine the future of education policy! Occasionally the politicians have a discussion to determine the future of education policy! The next is to picture what's happening in your head.

Occasionally, so not all the time but sometimes on occasion.

Occasionally the politicians have a discussion to determine the future of education policy.

I'm imagining a group of people meeting at the Houses of Parliament and discussing the best ways in which to teach children.

And finally, counting how many words there are.

Count along with me.

Occasionally, all one word.

The politicians have a discussion to determine the future of education policy.

I make that 13.

So remember, sound out each word.

Think about those common exceptional curriculum words.

Check your sentence punctuation.

And remember those rules for that shun or zhun suffix that we've been adding today.

I'll say the sentence one more time.

Occasionally the politicians have a discussion to determine the future of education policy.

Pause the video, write that sentence, off you go.

Superb job team.

Really great application of our spelling rules there.

Really great consideration of handwriting and sentence punctuation, great work.

Let's check our work now and make any corrections as we go along.

Occasionally, obviously needs to have a capital letter, but occasionally was one of those words that we looked at as a curriculum word, wasn't it? It's the word occasion and then the -ally.

And here we have a comma to separate our fronted adverbial of time, in this case an adverb, occasionally, the politicians, ah, politics is our root word here, cs, also, politician! It's a job that someone can do, isn't it? So politicians with our s at the end there as well 'cause it's plural, C-I-A-N-S, have a discussion! Discuss our root word here, ss, so it's our S-I-O-N.

to determine, be careful there with the naughty e at the end of determine, the future, be careful there, F-U-T-U-R-E, of education, educator is our root word here, te, so we need to remove the te and add our T-I-O-N best bet common spelling, education, policy, P-O-L-I-C-Y with our soft c there, policy.

And of course a full stop.

Great job team, how did you do, in particular with our words occasionally, politicians, discussion and education? Did you manage to get the right shun spellings at the end? Did you consider the root words? Pause the video, share your learning, and make any corrections now.

Great job in spelling today, team, we've been looking at shun suffixes today, haven't we? And they can be spelled -tion, -sion, -ssion, and -cian.

The most common spelling is -tion.

And these words often have a root word ending in t or te.

Words spelled with -sion have a root word ending in d, de or se.

And they can sound like zhun as well sometimes.

Words spelled with -ssion often have a root word ending in ss or mit.

And finally, words spelled with the -cian, shun, often have a root word ending in c or cs and are used for professions, jobs that people may do.

Keep up the great spelling, see if you can spot any of these words in your reading as well and I'll see you again soon.