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 students' curiosity about language!
Pre-K skills
- Find the lowercase letter in the alphabet
- Choose the picture that rhymes with the word
- Find all the words that start with a given sound
- Compare pictures using adjectives
- Match antonyms to pictures
See all 48 pre-K skills
Kindergarten skills
- Identify frequently confused letters
- Complete the rhyme
- Find the short a word
- Choose the singular or plural noun that matches the picture
- Put the letters in ABC order
See all 101 kindergarten skills
First-grade skills
- Statement, question, command, or exclamation?
- Sort common and proper nouns
- Identify adjectives
- Order related words based on meaning
- Put the words in ABC order
See all 87 first-grade skills
Second-grade skills
- Which word is a noun?
- Identify the irregular past tense I
- Identify comparative and superlative adjectives
- Does the adverb tell you how, when, or where?
- Use the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis-
See all 117 second-grade skills
Third-grade skills
- Is the sentence simple or compound?
- Create a sentence based on the model
- Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies
- Use adjectives to compare
- Use subordinating conjunctions
See all 161 third-grade skills
Fourth-grade skills
- Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
- Replace the noun with a pronoun
- Which sentence matches the definition?
- Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review
- Order alphabetically: challenge
See all 189 fourth-grade skills
Fifth-grade skills
- Form the perfect verb tenses
- Use relative adverbs
- Order adjectives
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
- Describe the difference between related words
See all 151 fifth-grade skills
Sixth-grade skills
- Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
- Identify vague pronoun references
- Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns
- Correct errors with frequently confused words
See all 149 sixth-grade skills
Seventh-grade skills
- Commas with coordinate adjectives
- What does the punctuation suggest?
- Are the modifiers used correctly?
- Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
- Positive and negative connotation
See all 139 seventh-grade skills
Eighth-grade skills
- Use dashes
- Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- Use parallel structure
- Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
- Match causes with their effects
See all 145 eighth-grade skills
Ninth-grade skills
- Semicolons, colons, and commas review
- Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
- Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
- Word pattern analogies
- Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
See all 134 ninth-grade skills
Tenth-grade skills
- Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
- Use words accurately and precisely
- Word pattern sentences
- Identify audience and purpose
- Use in-text citations with MLA formatting
See all 131 tenth-grade skills
Eleventh-grade skills
- Organize information by main idea
- Distinguish facts from opinions
- Correct errors in everyday use
- Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects
- Identify the narrative point of view
See all 120 eleventh-grade skills
Twelfth-grade skills
- Choose evidence to support a claim
- Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
- Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements
- Suggest appropriate revisions
- Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
See all 120 twelfth-grade skills
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