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The students should be able to identify -tion as a suffix that changes a verb to a noun, so next I am going to look for words where the verb, or base word, is obvious. Transformation, urbanization, and education are the most transparent.

Looking through this passage, there are many -tion words: revolution, transformation, mechanization, urbanization, sanitation, education.

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The word transform is on the Coxhead Academic Word List, which is widely used to determine words that are found in texts across content areas and are needed for academic tasks.

We also want to consider which words are important for understanding the text. Revolution is important, as the passage is about the Industrial Revolution, so I will include that after I model words that are more transparent first. I would not want to use this word first for word study as the suffix -tion in revolution changes the emphasis of pronunciation and changes the spelling, making it more complex. However, transformation and urbanization are key to understanding the impacts of the Industrial Revolution and are transparent, so I will choose them to begin instruction.