‘ian’ / ‘ion’ suffixes, person words and abstract nouns Week 8 IT 28 ‘ian’ / ‘ion’ suffixes, person words and abstract nouns This teacher led activity revisits the person word morpheme ‘ian’ from weeks 6 and 7, along with the introduction of the ‘ion’ morpheme to form abstract nouns. Children are reminded of the ‘ian’ person ending and asked in a series of questions to add the appropriate morpheme by deciding if the new word is a person word (‘ian’) or not (‘ion’). Children see the stem word and are asked to think which type of word they will be making, person word or not, and then prompted to write by the pencil symbol appearing on screen. Children have an answer sheet (see next slide) which needs to be printed off before the lesson. After the children have had chance to write down their decision and say why they chose a certain morpheme, correct feedback appears on the screen. At the end of the task, children are asked to make 2 lists of words, the person words and the non-person (nouns). There is a space on their worksheet to write these 2 lists. A slide with correct feedback appears at the end for them to check against their lists.

Answer sheet IT 28 ‘ian’ or ‘ion’ ? Name:………………………… Date:…………………………. ‘ian’ words are ………………………………….. words ian ion eg 1 mathematic…………………… ‘ion’ words are ……… person words. 1. 1. e.g.2 collect collect…………………. 1. magic magic…………………… 2. 2. 2. infect infect…………………. 3. 3. 3. music music ………………… 4. protect protect ………………. 4. 4. 5. add add ……………………. 6. library librar ………………. 5. 5. 7. attract attract ………….. 8. beauty beauti……………….. 6. 6. 9. subtract subtract ………… 10.electric electric ………… 11.clinic clinic………………….

Do you remember words that end in –ian? If the children don’t come up with ‘person words’, give other examples of endings. –er, -ist, -ive. This task is about pairs of words. The computer gives you a pair of words. This will be your clue about how to complete the second pair. Write down the second word in the pair, pay attention to the clue. After the feedback for each pair of words, make sure that the children check the spelling. Then they should discuss what type of word is the word that they wrote – for example, what type of word is ‘musician’? Each child writes on the answer sheet what type of word was just written. They should be able to identify ‘person words’ and other words, that are not person words, might have different categories – feelings, actions etc. The teacher will collect on the What type of words are they?

‘ian’ is for person words? e.g. 1 Did you remember ‘ian’ is for person words? If the children don’t come up with ‘person words’, give other examples of endings. –er, -ist, -ive. This task is about pairs of words. The computer gives you a pair of words. This will be your clue about how to complete the second pair. Write down the second word in the pair, pay attention to the clue. After the feedback for each pair of words, make sure that the children check the spelling. Then they should discuss what type of word is the word that they wrote – for example, what type of word is ‘musician’? Each child writes on the answer sheet what type of word was just written. They should be able to identify ‘person words’ and other words, that are not person words, might have different categories – feelings, actions etc. At the end, the children try to describe how the the ‘ian’ and ‘ion’ words are different. They put the group conclusions on acetates and present to the class. mathematic …… ian

What about words ending with ‘ion’? If the children don’t come up with ‘person words’, give other examples of endings. –er, -ist, -ive. This task is about pairs of words. The computer gives you a pair of words. This will be your clue about how to complete the second pair. Write down the second word in the pair, pay attention to the clue. After the feedback for each pair of words, make sure that the children check the spelling. Then they should discuss what type of word is the word that they wrote – for example, what type of word is ‘musician’? Each child writes on the answer sheet what type of word was just written. They should be able to identify ‘person words’ and other words, that are not person words, might have different categories – feelings, actions etc. At the end, the children try to describe how the the ‘ian’ and ‘ion’ words are different. They put the group conclusions on acetates and present to the class. These are not person words

e.g. Is it a person word? No collect ? collection

you to add correct endings. Here are some words for you to add correct endings. Think, is it a person word? Person words end in ‘ian’ If they are not person words they end in ‘ion’. Are you ready?

1. magic magic magician ?

2. infect infection infect

3. music music musician

4. protect protection protect

5. add add addition 1 + 2 = 3

6. library librarian

7. attract attraction attract

8. beauty beautician beauty beauty ?

9. subtract subtraction 3 - 2 = 1

10. electric electrician electric

11. clinic clinician clinic

addition infection collection musician beautician subtraction magician Can you put these words into a list of person words and a list which are not person words? addition infection collection musician beautician subtraction magician librarian protection attraction electrician clinician

ion ian magician collection musician infection protection librarian Person words: Not person words: ion ian magician collection musician infection protection librarian beautician addition electrician attraction clinician subtraction