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!

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Pre-K See all 48 skills

Includes: |Identify book parts and features

Includes: Letters names|Consonant sounds|Word recognition|Book parts and features|Rhyming words|Color and number words|Sequencing|Basic categories

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Kindergarten See all 101 skills

Includes: |Which letter does the word start with?|Choose the sight word that you hear|Sort objects into categories

Includes: Sight words|Syllables|Short vowel sounds|Long vowel sounds|Blending and segmenting sounds|Complete sentences|Antonyms|Question words|End punctuation

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First grade See all 158 skills

Includes: |Complete the silent e words|How many syllables does the word have?|Order related words based on meaning|Fill in the missing consonant blend|Identify action verbs

Includes: Silent e words|Vowel team words|Consonant digraphs|Two-syllable words|Contractions|Singular and plural nouns|Adjectives|Capitalizing sentences|Synonyms

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Second grade See all 222 skills

Includes: |Complete the two-syllable words|Order events in a story|Shades of meaning with pictures|Sort common and proper nouns

Includes: Spelling patterns|Multisyllabic words|Shades of meaning|Text features|Common and proper nouns|Conjunctions|Subject-verb agreement|Compound words

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Third grade See all 197 skills

Includes: |Draw inferences from a text|Use text features|Homophones with pictures|Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?

Includes: Inferences|Cause and effect|Topic sentences|Linking words|Themes of myths, fables, and folktales|Homophones

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Fourth grade See all 221 skills

Includes: |Similes and metaphors with pictures|Commas with dates|Identify main verbs and helping verbs

Includes: Fact vs. opinion|Similes and metaphors|Character descriptions|Prefixes and suffixes|Sensory details|Main and helping verbs|Time-order words|Graphic organizers

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Fifth grade See all 181 skills

Includes: |Determine the main idea of a passage|Analyze short stories|Choose the best transition|Use dictionary entries|Identify prepositional phrases

Includes: Main idea|Domain-specific vocabulary|Dictionaries and thesauruses|Prepositional phrases|Formatting and capitalizing titles|Greek and Latin roots|Text structures

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Sixth grade See all 167 skills

Includes: |Organize information by main idea|Identify vague pronoun references|Correct errors with signs

Includes: Text genres|Figures of speech|Compare and contrast|Using precise language|Compound and complex sentences|Vague pronouns|Editing and revising

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Seventh grade See all 156 skills

Includes: |Distinguish facts from opinions|Positive and negative connotation

Includes: Textual evidence|Positive and negative connotation|Transitions|Dependent and independent clauses|Misplaced and dangling modifiers|Idioms and adages

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Eighth grade See all 162 skills

Includes: |Match the quotations with their themes|Which sentence is more formal?|Rewrite the sentence in active voice

Includes: Analyzing short stories|Context clues|Supporting details|Formal vs. informal style|Personification|Active and passive voice|Gerunds, participles, and infinitives

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Ninth grade See all 149 skills

Includes: |Analyze short stories: set 1|Identify audience and purpose|Word pattern analogies|Use words accurately and precisely

Includes: Audience and purpose|Persuasive strategies|Word patterns|Parallel structure|Accurate and precise language usage|Organizing information|MLA style guidelines

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Tenth grade See all 145 skills

Includes: |Identify supporting evidence in a text|Interpret figures of speech|Identify the narrative point of view

Includes: Literary devices|Narrative point of view|Connotation and denotation|Citations|Semicolons, colons, and commas

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Eleventh grade See all 133 skills

Includes: |Use hyphens in compound adjectives

Includes: Claims and counterclaims|Text organization|Relative clauses|Plagiarism|Foreign words and expressions|Redundant words and phrases|Hyphens

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Twelfth grade See all 133 skills

Includes: |Identify thesis statements|Trace an argument: set 1|Suggest appropriate revisions|Correct errors in everyday use

Includes: Thesis statements|Developing and supporting arguments|Peer review|Author's tone|Rhetorical strategies|Ellipses|Word analogies|Frequently confused words

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