Grade 3 Vocabulary, Morphology & Word Study: Suffixes -tion and -sion
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Teaching Suffixes -tion and -sion
What it is
The endings -tion and -sion both say /shun/ and make a naming word out of an action word: act becomes action, confess becomes confession, express becomes expression. After certain bases, -sion softens to /zhun/, as in decision and television.
When a child is ready
Teach it once the child reads three-syllable words and no longer tries to sound out ti letter by letter.
If they struggle
Read the base and the noun as a pair: act and action, decide and decision. For spelling, a base ending in -d, -de, or -s usually takes -sion, and -tion is the common default; have the child say the base out loud before writing the ending.
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