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
- Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly
- Choose the picture that rhymes with the word
- Find all the words that start with a given sound
- Match antonyms to pictures
- Which could happen in real life?
See all 48 pre-K skills
Kindergarten skills
- How many syllables does the word have?
- Which two words end with the same sound?
- Does the word start with a consonant blend?
- Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture
- Sort short and long vowel words
See all 101 kindergarten skills
First-grade skills
- Complete the word with the right initial consonant blend
- Complete the word with the right diphthong: oi, oy, ou, ow
- Put the sentences in order
- Put the letters in ABC order
- Sort words into categories
See all 158 first-grade skills
Second-grade skills
- Sort short and long vowel words
- Spell the soft g or soft c word
- Identify adjectives
- Complete the word with the ending that you hear
- Shades of meaning with pictures
See all 202 second-grade skills
Third-grade skills
- Homophones with pictures
- Put the sentences in order
- Organize information by main idea
- Use actions and dialogue to understand characters
- Identify story elements
See all 176 third-grade skills
Fourth-grade skills
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- Punctuating dialogue
- Use the correct homophone
- Identify supporting details in informational texts
- Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales
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Fifth-grade skills
- Order the words to create a sentence
- Order items from most general to most specific
- Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
- Identify the purpose of a text
- Compare mythological illustrations
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Sixth-grade skills
- Positive and negative connotation
- Which sentence matches the definition?
- Use in-text citations with MLA formatting
- Which sentence is more formal?
- Compare and contrast
See all 166 sixth-grade skills
Seventh-grade skills
- Is it a phrase or a clause?
- Which definition matches the sentence?
- Find words using context
- Use parallel structure
- Misplaced modifiers with pictures
See all 155 seventh-grade skills
Eighth-grade skills
- Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
- Correct errors in everyday use
- Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th edition)
- Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements
- Compare information from two texts
See all 161 eighth-grade skills
Ninth-grade skills
- Identify dependent and independent clauses
- Formatting quotations and dialogue
- Word pattern sentences
- Identify supporting evidence in a text
- Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing
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Tenth-grade skills
- Identify run-on sentences
- Identify all of the possible antecedents
- Rewrite the sentence in active voice
- Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
- Interpret figures of speech
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Eleventh-grade skills
- Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
- Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
- Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
- Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
- Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1