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 picture that rhymes with the word
- Find the picture that matches the action verb
- Compare pictures using adjectives
- Sort objects into categories
See all 48 pre-K skills
Kindergarten skills
- Put the sounds in order
- Does the word start with a consonant blend?
- Choose the picture that matches the short e word
- Spell the short vowel word
- Use number words: one to ten
See all 101 kindergarten skills
First-grade skills
- Which two words start with the same sound?
- Choose the short o or long o word that matches the picture
- Complete the vowel team words
- Sort words into categories
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
See all 158 first-grade skills
Second-grade skills
- Complete the poem with a word that rhymes
- Complete the word with the correct diphthong: oi, oy, ou, ow
- Complete the word with the ending that you hear
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word
- Which word is a noun?
See all 222 second-grade skills
Third-grade skills
- Similes with pictures
- Organize information by main idea
- Word pattern analogies
- Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
- Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features
See all 177 third-grade skills
Fourth-grade skills
- Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
- Use the correct homophone
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- Order adjectives
- Commas with the names of places
See all 211 fourth-grade skills
Fifth-grade skills
- Determine the order of events in informational texts
- Analyze short stories
- Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech
- Use dictionary entries
- Commas with direct addresses
See all 171 fifth-grade skills
Sixth-grade skills
- Compare and contrast
- Classify figures of speech
- Alphabetical order
- What does the punctuation suggest?
- Use dashes
See all 166 sixth-grade skills
Seventh-grade skills
- Interpret the meaning of allusions
- Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
- Identify plagiarism
- Find words using context
- Is it a phrase or a clause?
See all 155 seventh-grade skills
Eighth-grade skills
- Correct errors with frequently confused words
- Correct errors in everyday use
- Choose the antonym
- Identify gerunds and their functions
- 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
- Identify dependent and independent clauses
See all 148 ninth-grade skills
Tenth-grade skills
- Interpret figures of speech
- Identify thesis statements
- Rewrite the sentence in active voice
- Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
- Use words accurately and precisely