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 the letter in the alphabet: lowercase
- Choose the words that have a given ending
- Which could happen in real life?
- Find the picture that matches the action verb
- Sort objects into categories
See all 48 pre-K skills
Kindergarten skills
- How many syllables does the word have?
- Choose the correct digraph
- Complete the sentence with the correct sight word
- Which one is not like the others?
- Is the noun a person, animal, place, or thing?
See all 101 kindergarten skills
First-grade skills
- Match the short a and long a words to pictures
- Complete the vowel team words
- Select the possessive noun that matches the picture
- Complete the sentence with the correct personal pronoun
- Put the sentences in order
See all 158 first-grade skills
Second-grade skills
- Spell the short o word
- Complete the sentence with the correct -ild, -ind, -old, -olt, or -ost word
- Choose the picture that matches the setting or character
- Identify the irregular past tense I
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2
See all 222 second-grade skills
Third-grade skills
- Sort sensory details
- Identify story elements
- Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning
- Is the subject singular or plural?
- Formatting street addresses
See all 177 third-grade skills
Fourth-grade skills
- Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales
- Identify supporting details in informational texts
- Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
- Order adjectives
- Identify prepositional phrases
See all 211 fourth-grade skills
Fifth-grade skills
- Compare mythological illustrations
- Choose the best transition
- Identify supporting details in literary texts
- Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech
- Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
See all 171 fifth-grade skills
Sixth-grade skills
- Choose evidence to support a claim
- Use in-text citations with MLA formatting
- Simple past, present, and future tense: review
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- What does the punctuation suggest?
See all 166 sixth-grade skills
Seventh-grade skills
- Determine the main idea
- Determine the themes of short stories
- Choose the synonym
- Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
- Misplaced modifiers with pictures
See all 155 seventh-grade skills
Eighth-grade skills
- Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements
- Correct errors in everyday use
- Choose the antonym
- Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
- Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
See all 161 eighth-grade skills
Ninth-grade skills
- Identify supporting evidence in a text
- Choose the most appropriate counterclaim for a given claim
- Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing
- Word pattern sentences
- Formatting quotations and dialogue
See all 148 ninth-grade skills
Tenth-grade skills
- Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
- Use words accurately and precisely
- Identify run-on sentences
- Subject and object pronouns review
- Identify all of the possible antecedents
See all 144 tenth-grade skills
Eleventh-grade skills
- Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
- Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
- Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
- Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
- Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
See all 132 eleventh-grade skills
Twelfth-grade skills
- Recall the source of an allusion
- Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
- Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects
- Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
- Select the misplaced or dangling modifier