Ninth grade language arts
Here is a list of language arts skills students learn in ninth 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 strategies
Main idea
Literary devices
Analyzing informational texts
- E.1 Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
- E.2 Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
- E.3 Trace an argument: set 1
- E.4 Trace an argument: set 2
- E.5 Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
- E.6 Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Writing strategies
Organizing writing
Topic sentences and thesis statements
Developing and supporting arguments
- H.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
- H.2 Choose evidence to support a claim
- H.3 Identify supporting evidence in a text
- H.4 Choose the most appropriate counterclaim for a given claim
- H.5 Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
- H.6 Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
- H.7 Classify logical fallacies
Persuasive strategies
Creative techniques
Writing clearly and concisely
Active and passive voice
Editing and revising
- M.1 Use the correct frequently confused word
- M.2 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
- M.3 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
- M.4 Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
- M.5 Correct errors with signs
- M.6 Correct errors in everyday use
- M.7 Suggest appropriate revisions
Vocabulary
Prefixes and suffixes
Greek and Latin roots
Foreign words and expressions
Analogies
Context clues
Grammar and mechanics
Sentences, fragments, and run-ons
Phrases and clauses
Pronouns
- Z.1 Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
- Z.2 Subject and object pronouns review
- Z.3 Pronouns after "than" and "as"
- Z.4 Identify and correct pronoun errors with "who"
- Z.5 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- Z.6 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that
- Z.7 Identify vague pronoun references
- Z.8 Identify all of the possible antecedents
- Z.9 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person