EnglishYear 6Spelling

Spell words ending -cious and -tious

Spell words ending in -cious (precious, conscious, delicious, vicious) and -tious (ambitious, cautious, fictitious, infectious)

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine a bag of 'cious' and 'tious' words. 'Cious' sounds like 'shus' and 'tious' sounds like 'shus' too — tricky!

  2. 2

    Drag the correct ending to complete the word: 'delici___'

  3. 3

    Let's spell 'cautious' together.

  4. 4

    Which word ends in 'cious'?

  5. 5

    Build the word that means 'full of space' — it ends in 'cious'.

  6. 6

    What is the ending for 'ambitious'?

  7. 7

    Which word is spelled correctly?

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