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
- Find a word in a sentence
- Use color words
- Find the picture that matches the action verb
- Sort objects into categories
See all 48 pre-K skills
Kindergarten skills
- Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly
- Put the sounds in order
- Sort short and long vowel words
- Which could happen in real life?
- Capitalize the first letter of a sentence
See all 101 kindergarten skills
First-grade skills
- Choose the silent e word that matches the picture
- Complete the word with the right r-controlled vowel: ar, er, ir, or, ur
- Choose the right end mark
- Compare pictures using comparative and superlative adjectives
- Match the contractions
See all 158 first-grade skills
Second-grade skills
- Choose the vowel team sentence that matches the picture
- Choose the sight word that you hear
- Compare and contrast in informational passages
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word
- Identify the irregular past tense I
See all 222 second-grade skills
Third-grade skills
- Match problems with their solutions
- Word pattern analogies
- Find synonyms in context
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- Use the correct article: a, an, or the
See all 177 third-grade skills
Fourth-grade skills
- Make predictions about a story
- Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
- Use guide words
- Identify prepositional phrases
- Punctuating dialogue
See all 211 fourth-grade skills
Fifth-grade skills
- Compare information from two texts
- Compare mythological illustrations
- Choose the best transition
- Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
See all 171 fifth-grade skills
Sixth-grade skills
- Classify figures of speech
- Order topics from broadest to narrowest
- Which sentence matches the definition?
- Analogies
- What does the punctuation suggest?
See all 166 sixth-grade skills
Seventh-grade skills
- Determine the main idea
- Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
- Remove redundant words or phrases
- Which definition matches the sentence?
- Misplaced modifiers with pictures
See all 155 seventh-grade skills
Eighth-grade skills
- Match the quotations with their themes
- Correct errors in everyday use
- Suggest appropriate revisions
- Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
- Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
See all 161 eighth-grade skills
Ninth-grade skills
- Compare passages for tone
- Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
- Identify supporting evidence in a text
- Identify dependent and independent clauses
- Identify participles and what they modify
See all 148 ninth-grade skills
Tenth-grade skills
- Identify audience and purpose
- Interpret figures of speech
- Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
- Identify run-on sentences
- Identify all of the possible antecedents
See all 144 tenth-grade skills
Eleventh-grade skills
- Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
- Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
- Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
- Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
- Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words