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 picture that rhymes with the word
- Identify the first sound in a word
- Find the short e word
- Use color words
- Compare pictures using adjectives
See all 48 pre-K skills
Kindergarten skills
- Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly
- How many syllables does the word have?
- Spell the short vowel word
- Complete the sentence with the correct sight word
- Complete the sentence with an action verb to match the picture
See all 101 kindergarten skills
First-grade skills
- Fill in the missing consonant blend
- Complete the sentence with the correct short vowel word
- Compare pictures using adjectives
- Complete the sentence
- Select the best preposition to match the picture
See all 158 first-grade skills
Second-grade skills
- Complete the word with the correct short vowel
- Sort short and long vowel words
- Order alphabetically based on the first letter
- Sort common and proper nouns
- Form contractions with "not"
See all 222 second-grade skills
Third-grade skills
- Compare and contrast in informational texts
- Select the members of a group
- Find synonyms in context
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- Use the correct article: a, an, or the
See all 197 third-grade skills
Fourth-grade skills
- Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales
- Create varied sentences based on models
- Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes
- Use the correct homophone
- Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
See all 211 fourth-grade skills
Fifth-grade skills
- Choose the best transition
- Show character emotions and traits
- Use dictionary entries
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
See all 171 fifth-grade skills
Sixth-grade skills
- Choose evidence to support a claim
- Use personification
- Positive and negative connotation
- Analogies
- Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
See all 166 sixth-grade skills
Seventh-grade skills
- Determine the themes of short stories
- Use the correct frequently confused word
- Identify plagiarism
- Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
- Use hyphens in compound adjectives
See all 155 seventh-grade skills
Eighth-grade skills
- Match the quotations with their themes
- Suggest appropriate revisions
- Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th edition)
- Choose the antonym
- Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
See all 161 eighth-grade skills
Ninth-grade skills
- Compare passages for tone
- Identify supporting evidence in a text
- Choose the most appropriate counterclaim for a given claim
- Use the correct foreign expression
- Identify participles and what they modify
See all 148 ninth-grade skills
Tenth-grade skills
- Identify audience and purpose
- Rewrite the sentence in active voice
- Use words accurately and precisely
- Identify run-on sentences
- Subject and object pronouns review
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 punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
- Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
- Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations, and appositives