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
- Find all the words that start with a given sound
- Use color words
- Find the picture that matches the action verb
- Match antonyms to pictures
See all 48 pre-K skills
Kindergarten skills
- Choose the words that have a given ending
- Which two words end with the same sound?
- Does the word start with a consonant blend?
- Find the long a word
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures
See all 101 kindergarten skills
First-grade skills
- Complete the sentence with the correct short vowel word
- Put two syllables together to create a word
- Use words with prefixes and suffixes
- Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence
- Complete the verb with the ending that you hear
See all 158 first-grade skills
Second-grade skills
- Complete the sentence with the correct -ild, -ind, -old, -olt, or -ost word
- Complete the word with the correct diphthong: oi, oy, ou, ow
- Sort words into categories
- Place sentences on a timeline
- Select the best preposition to complete the sentence
See all 222 second-grade skills
Third-grade skills
- Which book title goes with the picture?
- Distinguish facts from opinions
- Word pattern analogies
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- Use the correct article: a, an, or the
See all 177 third-grade skills
Fourth-grade skills
- Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
- Read and understand informational passages
- Identify time-order words
- Choose reasons to support an opinion
- Select the words that don't belong
See all 211 fourth-grade skills
Fifth-grade skills
- Choose the best transition
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word
- Order the words to create a sentence
- Form the perfect verb tenses
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
See all 171 fifth-grade skills
Sixth-grade skills
- Which sentence is more formal?
- Order topics from broadest to narrowest
- Which sentence matches the definition?
- Identify vague pronoun references
- Simple past, present, and future tense: review
See all 166 sixth-grade skills
Seventh-grade skills
- Determine the main idea
- Read graphic organizers
- Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
- Remove redundant words or phrases
- Misplaced modifiers with pictures
See all 155 seventh-grade skills
Eighth-grade skills
- Trace an argument
- Identify active and passive voice
- Suggest appropriate revisions
- Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
- Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
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
- Identify dependent and independent clauses
- Formatting quotations and dialogue
See all 148 ninth-grade skills
Tenth-grade skills
- Identify audience and purpose
- Identify thesis statements
- Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
- Rewrite the sentence in active voice
- Use words accurately and precisely
See all 144 tenth-grade skills
Eleventh-grade skills
- Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
- Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
- Explore words with new or contested usages
- Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
- Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations, and appositives