language arts

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!

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Pre-K

Includes: |Identify book parts and features

Includes: Letters names|Consonant sounds|Word recognition|Book parts and features|Rhyming words|Color and number words|Sequencing|Basic categories

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Kindergarten

Includes: |Which letter does the word start with?|Choose the sight word that you hear|Sort objects into categories

Includes: Sight words|Syllables|Short vowel sounds|Long vowel sounds|Blending and segmenting sounds|Complete sentences|Antonyms|Question words|End punctuation

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First grade

Includes: |Complete the silent e words|How many syllables does the word have?|Order related words based on meaning|Fill in the missing consonant blend|Identify action verbs

Includes: Silent e words|Vowel team words|Consonant digraphs|Two-syllable words|Contractions|Singular and plural nouns|Adjectives|Capitalizing sentences|Synonyms

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2

Second grade

Includes: |Complete the two-syllable words|Order events in a story|Shades of meaning with pictures|Sort common and proper nouns

Includes: Spelling patterns|Multisyllabic words|Shades of meaning|Text features|Common and proper nouns|Conjunctions|Subject-verb agreement|Compound words

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3

Third grade

Includes: |Draw inferences from a text|Use text features|Homophones with pictures|Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?

Includes: Inferences|Cause and effect|Topic sentences|Linking words|Themes of myths, fables, and folktales|Homophones

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Fourth grade

Includes: |Similes and metaphors with pictures|Commas with dates|Identify main verbs and helping verbs

Includes: Fact vs. opinion|Similes and metaphors|Character descriptions|Prefixes and suffixes|Sensory details|Main and helping verbs|Time-order words|Graphic organizers

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Fifth grade

Includes: |Determine the main idea of a passage|Analyze short stories|Choose the best transition|Use dictionary entries|Identify prepositional phrases

Includes: Main idea|Domain-specific vocabulary|Dictionaries and thesauruses|Prepositional phrases|Formatting and capitalizing titles|Greek and Latin roots|Text structures

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Sixth grade

Includes: |Organize information by main idea|Identify vague pronoun references|Correct errors with signs

Includes: Text genres|Figures of speech|Compare and contrast|Using precise language|Compound and complex sentences|Vague pronouns|Editing and revising

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Seventh grade

Includes: |Distinguish facts from opinions|Positive and negative connotation

Includes: Textual evidence|Positive and negative connotation|Transitions|Dependent and independent clauses|Misplaced and dangling modifiers|Idioms and adages

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Eighth grade

Includes: |Match the quotations with their themes|Which sentence is more formal?|Rewrite the sentence in active voice

Includes: Analyzing short stories|Context clues|Supporting details|Formal vs. informal style|Personification|Active and passive voice|Gerunds, participles, and infinitives

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Ninth grade

Includes: |Analyze short stories: set 1|Identify audience and purpose|Word pattern analogies|Use words accurately and precisely

Includes: Audience and purpose|Persuasive strategies|Word patterns|Parallel structure|Accurate and precise language usage|Organizing information|MLA style guidelines

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Tenth grade

Includes: |Identify supporting evidence in a text|Interpret figures of speech|Identify the narrative point of view

Includes: Literary devices|Narrative point of view|Connotation and denotation|Citations|Semicolons, colons, and commas

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Eleventh grade

Includes: |Choose evidence to support a claim|Use hyphens in compound adjectives

Includes: Claims and counterclaims|Text organization|Relative clauses|Plagiarism|Foreign words and expressions|Redundant words and phrases|Hyphens

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Twelfth grade

Includes: |Identify thesis statements|Trace an argument: set 1|Suggest appropriate revisions|Correct errors in everyday use

Includes: Thesis statements|Developing and supporting arguments|Peer review|Author's tone|Rhetorical strategies|Ellipses|Word analogies|Frequently confused words

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