This week’s spelling is an activity based around –tious and -cious endings. There will be a test next week (Thursday 19 October) which will focus on both -fer endings and -tious and -cious.
Next week, we’ll focus on words ending in -tious and -cious. Here are some words which end in these sounds. Work out the root word for each of them and think about how this can help you to decide whether the spelling is with a ‘t’ or a ‘c’.
vicious, precious, conscious, delicious, malicious, suspicious, ambitious, cautious, fictitious, infectious, nutritious
In your book, I might see:
- the words listed next to their root word: ambitious >>> ambition (some are harder than others)
- practice of the root words, using the tips at the back of your book
- an explanation of how to turn a root word into one with a -tious ending and why it is a t not a c