Primary Pros is a small team that creates high quality Key Stage 2 resources for all teachers, new and old. We strive to create work that is of outstanding quality, exceptionally intuitive and of immense help to children.
Within our resources, we always include differentiated success criteria, learning objectives and animated countdown timers so that your children know the skill they are trying to learn, how they know they are achieving it and how long they have left to do so.
Primary Pros is a small team that creates high quality Key Stage 2 resources for all teachers, new and old. We strive to create work that is of outstanding quality, exceptionally intuitive and of immense help to children.
Within our resources, we always include differentiated success criteria, learning objectives and animated countdown timers so that your children know the skill they are trying to learn, how they know they are achieving it and how long they have left to do so.
A poem about the individual beauty of each season within a year. The poem explores all aspects of the seasons and transitions between them using evocative and complex language, perfect for inference and vocabulary deepening!
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
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A heartwarming story about one penguin's love for her mother, growing up and wanting to explore the wider world. Sadly for this little penguin, she gets a little more than she bargained for when deciding to venture off away from her nest!
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Requires children to summarise information from the text
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts:
Anxious In Antarctica
Roaring Rockets
Are We Alone?
Night Flight
Tiger Stripes
Shiver Me Timbers
The School
Cauldron Bubble
Infection
A play script all about flying pirate ships! Two fearsome pirate captains face off against one another in a climactic story. Perfect for children with limited exposure to play scripts and reluctant boy readers.
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
A fictional tale about a scientist travelling to another planet and writing a report about a beautifully cute animal that is native to it. The plight of these cute animals and the dangers they face provides an intriguing text for children to read.
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
Ever been interested in a trip to Mars? Well, this handy guide (published in the mid 2030s) is here to help make that decision easier for you! A lovely fictional information text which will draw in your reluctant boy readers!
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
A beautifully created fact sheet that spans five pages with outstanding presentation. The engaging pictures and information along with question and answer sheets will engage even the most reluctant of readers!
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions designed to test children’s knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Requires children to summarise information from the text
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
An intriguing short story about a spy who travels around the galaxy to take care of… undesireables. On this particular mission however, this spy gets a little more than he bargained for. A story that is perfect for reluctant boy readers.
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
A collection of beautifully written and illustrated short stories, poems, play scripts and information texts, with questions and answers included, tailored perfectly to meet the requirements of the curriculum’s content domains for year 5 and 6 students.
This document has the following features:
→ Individually, purpose written texts, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Football crazy? Football mad? You sure will be after taking part in this reading comprehension exercise! A beautifully written and illustrated non-fiction fact sheet all about football.
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions designed to test children’s knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Requires children to summarise information from the text
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
A story about two slaves who dare to dream. Lekk and Kalino try to escape from a life of hardship underneath an Egyptian sun. The Pharaoh’s war goes badly and the guards, forever feriocious, are smaller in number than usual as they plot their escape…
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
A poem about a dormant volcano suddenly and furiously bursting into life using descriptive language and many questions regarding authorial technique.
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Requires children to summarise information from the text
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts:
Anxious In Antarctica
Roaring Rockets
Are We Alone?
Night Flight
Tiger Stripes
Shiver Me Timbers
The School
Cauldron Bubble
Infection
Perfect for reluctant boy readers and girls who enjoy a little violence! A phenomenal warrior, Javi, tries to defend her kingdom from a deadly enemy: Lord Rask. However, things are not as they seem and Javi must confront a deeper problem…
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
A short story about an elephant safari, set in India during the 1800s. A pompous and privileged individual sets out to capture a tiger. Little does this individual know but the tiger is stalking him…
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
A detailed information text all about honey bees. The text discusses the different roles of bees within the hive, the different bees which live there and the life cycle of bees along with some interesting additional facts.
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6
→ Perfect for SATs preparation
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint)
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts:
Coming soon!
A collection of beautifully written and illustrated short stories, with questions and answers included, tailored perfectly to meet the requirements of the curriculum's content domains for year 3 & 4 students.
These documents have the following features:
→Individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Requires children to summarise information from the text
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
→ Unique watercolour page design makes the text engaging when compared to traditional comprehension texts and questions
Dr. Jack and Dr. Rebecca are searching for a lost underwater city, but what they find is far more disturbing and scary...
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Requires children to summarise information from the text
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts:
Anxious In Antarctica
Roaring Rockets
Are We Alone?
Night Flight
Tiger Stripes
The School
Cauldron Bubble
Infection
An acrostic poem all about life under the sea featuring detailed comparison and thought provoking meanings about how the sea can be many different things to the different animals that call it home
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions designed to test children’s knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Requires children to summarise information from the text
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author.
Deep in the jungle, under a blanket of stars a tiger lurks within the shadows searching for her next meal. The moonlight bounces from streams, whilst the stars twinkle overhead, but the jungle isn't a safe place to be...
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Requires children to summarise information from the text
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts:
Anxious In Antarctica
Roaring Rockets
Are We Alone?
Night Flight
Tiger Stripes
Shiver Me Timbers
The School
Cauldron Bubble
Infection
An elderly doctor finally cracks how to build a spaceship engine that can reduce flights from planet to planet down to days, not years! His friend, Captain Koop of Earth's Navy, finally is able to use the engine for the good of Earth, but the doctor can't wait to explore the stars...
This document has the following features:
→ An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 3 & 4
→ Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 3 & 4
→ A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains
→ An appropriate range of questions designed to test children's knowledge of retrieval, inference and comparison in line with the National Curriculum requirements
→ Promotes the use of dictionaries to identify meanings of words
→ Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments
→ Requires children to summarise information from the text
→ Answers to the questions are provided within the same document
→ Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life
We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature.
Explore our other Year 3 & 4 Guided Reading Texts:
Anxious In Antarctica
Roaring Rockets
Are We Alone?
Night Flight
Tiger Stripes
Shiver Me Timbers
The School
Cauldron Bubble
Infection
Please find within this download:
A detailed and engaging PowerPoint, a colourful worksheet giving many opportunities to learn spelling patterns and rules along with an Answer Sheet for a complete lesson on this National Curriculum Statement. There is a spelling homework sheet to send home to reinforce learning.
The PowerPoint has the following features:
→ Starter activity the makes children find the root word from a collection of words
→ Extremely logical and simplistic explanations with animated examples and pictures to aid learning
→ A clear emphasis upon how to engage with the tasks successfully, using examples within the PowerPoint
→ Learning Objective and differentiated success criteria which is clearly visible for all children
→ Animated count-down timer so children know how long they have left of the lesson (this is also good for teachers as it reminds you when to do mini-plenaries/feedback/etc).
The Word Document has the following features:
→ A variety of different activities over two sheets
→ Children asked to identify how the meaning of words has changed
→ Children are asked to devise their own rules for spelling
→ Identify spelling errors in a text
→ And may more!
→ Answer sheet included for all questions
Explore our other Year 3/4 Spelling Lessons:
Adding the prefix dis-
Adding the suffix -tion
Adding the suffix -cian
