IXL Language arts
IXL makes the world of words come alive with fun visuals and interactive questions. Build great writers through playful skills that pique learners' curiosity about language!
Pre-K skills
- Find the letter in the alphabet: lowercase
- Identify the first sound in a word
- Find the picture that matches the action verb
- Compare pictures using adjectives
- Match antonyms to pictures
See all 48 pre-K skills
Kindergarten skills
- How many syllables does the word have?
- Put the sounds in order
- Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture
- Sort short and long vowel words
- Choose the best location word to match the picture
See all 101 kindergarten skills
First-grade skills
- Sort consonants and vowels
- Understand words with prefixes and suffixes
- Is the noun a person, animal, place, or thing?
- Complete the verb with the ending that you hear
- Match the contractions
See all 158 first-grade skills
Second-grade skills
- Complete words with variant vowels
- Sort soft and hard g words and soft and hard c words
- Place sentences on a timeline
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2
- Form contractions with "not"
See all 222 second-grade skills
Third-grade skills
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- Use dictionary definitions
- Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
- Commas with dates
- Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features
See all 197 third-grade skills
Fourth-grade skills
- Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales
- Create varied sentences based on models
- Find antonyms in context
- Use guide words
- Identify prepositional phrases
See all 211 fourth-grade skills
Fifth-grade skills
- Identify the purpose of a text
- Compare information from two texts
- Identify elements of poetry
- Choose the best transition
- Order the words to create a sentence
See all 171 fifth-grade skills
Sixth-grade skills
- Which sentence is more formal?
- Use in-text citations with MLA formatting
- Analogies
- Simple past, present, and future tense: review
- Correct capitalization errors
See all 166 sixth-grade skills
Seventh-grade skills
- Identify text structures
- Interpret the meaning of allusions
- Choose the synonym
- Which definition matches the sentence?
- Is it a phrase or a clause?
See all 155 seventh-grade skills
Eighth-grade skills
- Identify active and passive voice
- Correct errors with frequently confused words
- Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th edition)
- Identify gerunds and their functions
- Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
See all 161 eighth-grade skills
Ninth-grade skills
- Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
- Identify supporting evidence in a text
- Word pattern sentences
- Use the correct foreign expression
- Identify dependent and independent clauses
See all 148 ninth-grade skills
Tenth-grade skills
- Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
- Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
- Use words accurately and precisely
- Identify run-on sentences
- Subject and object pronouns review