First grade language arts
Here is a list of language arts skills students learn in first grade! These skills are organized into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practicing, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
Reading foundations
Consonants and vowels
Rhyming
Blending and segmenting
Consonant sounds and letters
Consonant blends and digraphs
- F.1 Complete the word with the right initial consonant blend
- F.2 Does the word start with a consonant blend?
- F.3 Complete the word with the right final consonant blend
- F.4 Does the word end with a consonant blend?
- F.5 Fill in the missing consonant blend
- F.6 Complete the word to match the picture: -ss, -ll, -ff, -zz, -ck
- F.7 Choose the correct digraph
- F.8 Complete the word with the right digraph
- F.9 Spell the digraph word
- F.10 Sort by initial consonant blend or digraph
Short a
Short e
Short i
Short o
Short u
Short and long vowels
- M.1 Sort short and long vowel words
- M.2 Match the short a and long a words to pictures
- M.3 Match the short e and long e words to pictures
- M.4 Choose the short i or long i word that matches the picture
- M.5 Choose the short o or long o word that matches the picture
- M.6 Choose the short u or long u word that matches the picture
- M.7 Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words
Silent e
Vowel teams
R-controlled vowels
Diphthongs: oi, oy, ou, ow
Two-syllable words
Reading strategies
Reality vs. fiction
Main idea
Inference and analysis
Vocabulary
Nouns and adjectives
Synonyms and antonyms
Multiple-meaning words
Prefixes and suffixes
Context clues
Reference skills
Grammar and mechanics
Sentences
- EE.1 Identify statements
- EE.2 Identify questions
- EE.3 Identify exclamations
- EE.4 Identify commands
- EE.5 Choose the right end mark
- EE.6 Statement, question, command, or exclamation?
- EE.7 Who, what, when, where, or why?
- EE.8 Is it the naming or action part of the sentence?
- EE.9 Find the complete sentences
- EE.10 Complete the sentence
- EE.11 Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence
Nouns
- FF.1 Is the noun a person, animal, place, or thing?
- FF.2 Select the nouns
- FF.3 Identify nouns in a sentence
- FF.4 Sort common and proper nouns
- FF.5 Identify proper nouns
- FF.6 Regular plurals: select the word that matches the picture
- FF.7 Form regular plurals with -s and -es
- FF.8 Use singular and plural nouns
- FF.9 Irregular plurals: select the word that matches the picture
- FF.10 Select the possessive noun that matches the picture
- FF.11 Form the singular possessive
Verbs
Subject-verb agreement
Verb tense
- JJ.1 Select the sentence that tells about the present
- JJ.2 Select the sentence that tells about the past
- JJ.3 Select the sentence that tells about the future
- JJ.4 Place sentences on a timeline
- JJ.5 Form and use the regular past tense
- JJ.6 Identify the irregular past tense
- JJ.7 Place sentences with irregular verbs on a timeline
- JJ.8 Complete the verb with the ending that you hear
- JJ.9 Match the -ed and -ing sentences to the pictures
- JJ.10 To be: use the correct present tense form
- JJ.11 To be: use the correct past tense form
- JJ.12 To be: use the correct form
- JJ.13 To have: use the correct form