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
- Find all the words that start with a given sound
- Find the picture that matches the action verb
- Compare pictures using adjectives
- Sort objects into categories
See all 48 pre-K skills
Kindergarten skills
- How many syllables does the word have?
- Find all the words that start with a given sound
- Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture
- Choose the singular or plural noun that matches the picture
- Complete the sentence with an action verb to match the picture
See all 101 kindergarten skills
First-grade skills
- Choose the short i word that matches the picture
- Complete the sentence with the correct short vowel word
- Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words
- Select the possessive noun that matches the picture
- Choose the synonyms
See all 158 first-grade skills
Second-grade skills
- Choose the diphthong word that matches the picture
- Complete words with variant vowels
- Sort common and proper nouns
- Place sentences on a timeline
- Form contractions with "not"
See all 202 second-grade skills
Third-grade skills
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- Is the subject singular or plural?
- Formatting street addresses
- Put the sentences in order
- Identify story elements
See all 176 third-grade skills
Fourth-grade skills
- Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes
- Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
- Find antonyms in context
- Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales
- Label the rhyme scheme
See all 210 fourth-grade skills
Fifth-grade skills
- Order the words to create a sentence
- Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures
- Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
- Identify elements of poetry
See all 170 fifth-grade skills
Sixth-grade skills
- What does the punctuation suggest?
- Correct capitalization errors
- Which sentence matches the definition?
- Order topics from broadest to narrowest
- Which sentence is more formal?
See all 166 sixth-grade skills
Seventh-grade skills
- Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
- Commas with coordinate adjectives
- Find words using context
- Interpret the meaning of allusions
- Read graphic organizers
See all 155 seventh-grade skills
Eighth-grade skills
- Identify gerunds and their functions
- Choose the antonym
- Correct errors with frequently confused words
- Suggest appropriate revisions
- Match the quotations with their themes
See all 161 eighth-grade skills
Ninth-grade skills
- Word pattern sentences
- Use the correct foreign expression
- Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing
- Compare passages for tone
- Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
See all 148 ninth-grade skills
Tenth-grade skills
- Identify all of the possible antecedents
- Identify thesis statements
- Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
- Identify audience and purpose
- Interpret figures of speech
See all 144 tenth-grade skills
Eleventh-grade skills
- Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
- Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
- Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
- Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
- Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1