Word Endings

-tion, -sion, -ture, -ous, -cian (station, vision, picture, famous, musician): hear the ending and pick its spelling.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 4

Long words often end with a chunk you'll see again and again. Learn the chunk, and you can read and spell hundreds of words.
T i o n says shun: station, action, vacation. It's the most common way to spell the shun ending.
S i o n says zhun after a vowel, like vision and television. After s, l, or n, it says shun: mission, tension.
C i a n says shun too, but it names a person with a skill. A musician plays music. A magician does magic.
T u r e says chur: picture, nature, adventure. And o u s says us. It means full of: famous is full of fame.
Your turn! Sort these words by how their ending sounds.

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

4.F.P.4.a — Decode and encode words with graphemes that represent multiple letter-sound correspondences.
4.F.P.4.c — Decode and encode words with common prefixes and suffixes.