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 a word in a sentence
- Choose the words that have a given ending
- Find the short e word
- Find the picture that matches the action verb
- Match antonyms to pictures
See all 48 pre-K skills
Kindergarten skills
- Choose the words that have a given ending
- Find all the words that start with a given sound
- Sort short and long vowel words
- Complete the sentence with an action verb to match the picture
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures
See all 101 kindergarten skills
First-grade skills
- Spell the digraph word
- Complete the vowel team words
- Is the noun a person, animal, place, or thing?
- Complete the sentence with the correct personal pronoun
- Use conjunctions
See all 158 first-grade skills
Second-grade skills
- Complete the sentence with the correct -ild, -ind, -old, -olt, or -ost word
- Compare and contrast in informational passages
- Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales
- Place sentences on a timeline
- Shades of meaning with pictures
See all 202 second-grade skills
Third-grade skills
- Use subordinating conjunctions
- Word pattern analogies
- Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning
- Homophones with pictures
- Distinguish facts from opinions
See all 176 third-grade skills
Fourth-grade skills
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- Identify prepositional phrases
- Identify sensory details
- Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
- Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales
See all 210 fourth-grade skills
Fifth-grade skills
- Use dictionary entries
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures
- Choose the best transition
- Identify supporting details in literary texts
- Determine the order of events in informational texts
See all 170 fifth-grade skills
Sixth-grade skills
- What does the punctuation suggest?
- Use dashes
- Correct capitalization errors
- Positive and negative connotation
- Which sentence matches the definition?
See all 166 sixth-grade skills
Seventh-grade skills
- Choose the synonym
- Which definition matches the sentence?
- Misplaced modifiers with pictures
- Identify plagiarism
- Determine the main idea
See all 155 seventh-grade skills
Eighth-grade skills
- Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- Choose the antonym
- Correct errors with frequently confused words
- Correct errors in everyday use
- Suggest appropriate revisions
See all 161 eighth-grade skills
Ninth-grade skills
- Identify dependent and independent clauses
- Identify participles and what they modify
- Use the correct foreign expression
- Identify supporting evidence in a text
- Choose the most appropriate counterclaim for a given claim
See all 148 ninth-grade skills
Tenth-grade skills
- Identify run-on sentences
- Subject and object pronouns review
- Rewrite the sentence in active voice
- Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
- Identify audience and purpose
See all 144 tenth-grade skills
Eleventh-grade skills
- Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
- Explore words with new or contested usages
- Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
- Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
- Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source