St Patrick's Primary School
Together Everyone Achieves More. Journey to Learning
Learning Intention
To know that a suffix changes or adds meaning to words.
To investigate words with the suffix <-ation>
Introduction
Look at these words
option aversion permission beautician introduction
extension depression musician
Write each word into your literacy book and underline the suffix.
Can you write two more words with these spellings?
These spellings usually say /shun/, but <-tion> can also say /chun/
and<-sion> can say /zhun/
Main learning
Let’s look at the suffix <-ation>, which like <-sion>,<-ssion> and <-tion> is often added to verbs to make nouns, meaning the act, state or result of doing the verb.
e.g. If a surgeon operates on a patient, s/he performs an operation.
If you locate something, you find its location.
The most common way to spell the /shun sound is <-tion> and sometimes it is preceded by (a), saying its long vowel sound
Read through the spelling list, identify the root verbs, and note that many of these end in <-ate>.
Copy each sentence into your literacy in your best handwriting.
Underline the noun in black and put a black box around the noun phrase acting as the subject or object.
Then write out the noun phrase and simple subject/ object.
1. They always had the most interesting conversations.
Noun phrase __________________________
Simple object ___________
2. The lost Arctic explorer eventually returned safely.
Noun phrase __________________________
Simple subject ___________
3. Her husband’s closest relations will be arriving soon.
Noun phrase __________________________
Simple subject ___________
4. The magical, mysterious magician totally amazed us.
Noun phrase __________________________
Simple subject ___________
5. I did not understand his long complicated explanation.
Noun phrase __________________________
Simple object ___________
Dictation
1. I invited my relations to my birthday celebrations.
2. “Your operation has been postponed,” confirmed the doctor.
3. They discovered important evidence during the investigation.