Grade 3 Fall — Personal Narrative, Complex Sentences with Subordinate Clauses, and Morphology with Affixes and Roots

Lesson 17 50 min eng.g3.f.lesson_17.suffixes_tion_ment_root_families

Suffixes -tion and -ment — Turning Verbs Into Nouns

Skills targeted

Recognize and use suffixes -tion and -ment ('act, state, or result of')

Objectives

Students identify -tion and -ment suffixes and strip them to find the verb root.
Students convert 6 verbs to nouns using -tion or -ment and use one in a sentence.

Vocabulary

suffix-tion-mentverb rootnoun formact, state, or result of

Lesson plan

Warm-up

5 min

Verb-to-noun chorus: teacher calls a verb (act, move, agree, pay, attend, direct, govern); children chorus the noun form (action, movement, agreement, payment, attention, direction, government).

Teacher moves

Affirm; gently fix '-tions' misspelled
Bridge to suffix naming

Direct instruction

13 min

Two suffixes today. -TION and -MENT BOTH mean 'act, state, or result of.' They turn a VERB into a NOUN. The verb names an action; the noun names the thing-of-the-action. Verb ACT becomes noun ACTION. Verb MOVE becomes noun MOVEMENT. Verb AGREE becomes noun AGREEMENT. Look at MG-9. -TION examples: act → action, move → motion, attend → attention, direct → direction. -MENT examples: move → movement, pay → payment, agree → agreement, govern → government. Notice: sometimes the same verb takes -TION (motion from move) and sometimes -MENT (movement from move). English keeps both as different nouns with slightly different meanings. MOTION is the general idea; MOVEMENT is often a specific motion. Today we strip and convert.

Key examples

Verb → noun.

model Suffix: -TION. Root: ACT. Meaning: the act or result of acting.

prompt Strip and convert: ACTION.
Same pattern.

model Suffix: -MENT. Root: AGREE. Meaning: the act or state of agreeing.

prompt Strip and convert: AGREEMENT.
Most -MENT words come from a 1-syllable English verb root.

model PAYMENT (with -MENT). 'I gave the payment yesterday.'

prompt Convert: PAY → ___.

Checks for understanding

What do BOTH suffixes mean?
Convert ATTEND to a noun.

Media


        M-3-F-VOC-17-A

Chart

Reproduction of MG-9 middle section at 11x17: row 1 -TION (blue, 'act, state, or result of') with 5 examples (act+ion, mot+ion, atten+tion, direc+tion, na+tion); row 2 -MENT (red, 'act, state, or result of') with 5 examples (move+ment, pay+ment, agree+ment, govern+ment, treat+ment). Each example shown as separate magnetic-tile-style components with a + between. Note line: 'Both suffixes turn VERBS into NOUNS.' Print-ready, dyslexic-friendly font.


        MG-9

Chart Physical / non-image

Affix and Latin root anchor poster: top section PREFIXES — COM-/CON- (means 'together / with') with examples combine, connect, compare, conduct; SUB- (means 'under / below') with examples submarine, subway, subtract, subzero. Middle section SUFFIXES — -TION (means 'act, state, or result of') with examples action, motion, attention, direction; -MENT (means 'act, state, or result of') with examples movement, payment, agreement, government. Bottom section ROOTS — ACT (do): action, react, actor. PORT (carry): import, export, portable. STRUCT (build): structure, construct, instruct. JECT (throw): inject, eject, project. FORM (shape): form, inform, transform. Each row color-coded; root family branches diagrammed. Print-ready 11x17.

Guided practice

15 min

Tasks

Convert 8 verbs to nouns using -TION or -MENT. Use the magnetic tiles.

scaffold Tiles + verb-to-noun chart + MG-9
Use 2 of the converted nouns in sentences about your narrative.

scaffold Sentence-frame: 'My ___ was ___.' / 'The ___ made me ___.'

Media


        M-3-F-VOC-17-B

Chart Physical / non-image

11x17 chart with 4 columns (VERB | + SUFFIX | = NOUN | EXAMPLE SENTENCE) and 12 rows. Sample rows pre-filled: act + tion = action / 'Her quick action saved the cat.'; move + ment = movement / 'The dance movement was sharp.'; pay + ment = payment / 'I made the payment.'; agree + ment = agreement / 'We came to an agreement.'; direct + tion = direction / 'Follow the direction on the sign.'; attend + tion = attention / 'Pay attention to the steps.' Remaining 6 rows empty for children to fill. Print-ready, dyslexic-friendly font.

Formative assessment

3 min

Exit ticket

Convert these 3 verbs: agree, direct, govern.
Use one in a sentence.

scoring All 3 conversions + sentence = mastery; 1-2 conversions = practicing; 0 = reteach with tiles.

Closure

3 min

Moves

Hold up your verb-to-noun conversion.
Predict: tomorrow we meet the first 5 Latin roots.

Homework

10 min

Tasks

Find one -TION or -MENT word in a book at home. Strip the suffix. Write the root verb.

Exercises in this lesson

eng.g3.f.ex_33 Convert each verb to a noun by adding -TION or -MENT. (1) act → ___ (2) move → ___ (use -MENT) (3) agree → ___ (4) direct → ___ (5) pay...	verb to noun conversion · diff 3
eng.g3.f.ex_34 Pick 2 of the converted nouns from ex_33. Use each in a sentence about your narrative or your day.	use converted noun in sentence · diff 3

Differentiation

Scaffolds

Pre-printed verb-to-noun chart with first 3 filled
Suffix tiles color-coded (-tion=blue, -ment=red)
Reduced target: 4 conversions

Extensions

Find a -tion or -ment word in any mentor text.
Convert ACT into 5 family members (act, action, react, reaction, actor).

English Learners

Bilingual chart (Spanish: -ción → -tion is a near-perfect cognate)
Slow oral conversion demo

Ieps 504s

Tile manipulation only
Reduced target: 2 conversions
Pre-stripped roots

Teacher notes

The -TION/-MENT lesson is the heaviest morphology day. The English-Spanish cognate (-ción → -tion) is a gift for EL learners — flag it explicitly. Watch for two errors: (1) spelling -TION as -SHUN (children hear the phonetic /shun/ but must learn the orthographic -TION); (2) treating every -ion word as -TION (action vs. champion — 'champion' is not a verb-to-noun derivation). Plan to revisit suffix work in lesson 19 with Latin roots, so children see the full morphology picture (prefix + root + suffix).