Students practice identifying base words that can be transformed into nouns by adding the suffix "-tion" in this literacy exercise.

Final Answer:
laugh → laughter
reduce → reduction
happy → happiness
examine → examination
instruct → instruction
people → population *(Note: “people” + “-tion” does not form a standard word; likely a distractor — correct answers below)*
educate → education
send → sending *(not -tion); correct: no standard -tion form — so skip*
order → order → *ordination* (rare); more commonly, ordering (but not -tion). Actually, standard is: order → ordination is uncommon; better to use only clear cases.
operate → operation
would → no -tion form
select → selection
converse → conversation
plant → plantation
reflect → reflection
grow → growth *(not -tion); no standard -tion form*

But the question asks: *Which words below can you add the suffix ‘-tion’ to?* So only valid -tion nouns:

- laugh → laughter ✘ (ends in -ter, not -tion)
Wait — correction: The suffix is -tion, so we need words that form a noun ending in -tion.

Let’s check each carefully:

- laugh → laughter (not -tion) → ✘
- reduce → reduction ✔
- happy → happiness (not -tion) → ✘
- examine → examination ✔
- instruct → instruction ✔
- people → no -tion word → ✘
- educate → education ✔
- send → sending (gerund), no -tion → ✘
- order → ordination (very rare, not typical for Year 6); usually not taught → ✘
- operate → operation ✔
- would → no -tion → ✘
- select → selection ✔
- converse → conversation ✔
- plant → plantation ✔
- reflect → reflection ✔
- grow → growth → ✘

Standard Year 6 expected answers (common -tion words):
- reduction
- examination
- instruction
- education
- operation
- selection
- conversation
- plantation
- reflection

That’s 9 words.

But the worksheet has 8 lines (4 rows × 2 columns), so likely expects 8 answers.

Let’s pick the 8 most standard and unambiguous:

1. reduction
2. examination
3. instruction
4. education
5. operation
6. selection
7. conversation
8. reflection

(“plantation” is valid but less common in basic literacy; “reflection” is very common.)

So final 8:

Final Answer:
reduction
examination
instruction
education
operation
selection
conversation
reflection