1. ‘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.

2. 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………………….

3. 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?

4. ‘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

5. 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

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

7. 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?

8. 1.
magic
magic
magician ?

9. 2.
infect
infection
infect

10. 3.
music
music
musician

11. 4.
protect
protection
protect

12. 5.
add
add
addition
1 + 2 = 3

13. 6.
library
librarian

14. 7.
attract
attraction
attract

15. 8.
beauty
beautician
beauty
beauty ?

16. 9.
subtract
subtraction
3 - 2 = 1

17. 10.
electric
electrician
electric

18. 11.
clinic
clinician
clinic

19. 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

20. 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