Pre-K language arts skills

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IXL has dozens of pre-K language arts skills to learn and review! As you work through a skill, questions will adapt to match your level. Keep answering questions to reach mastery!

Reading foundations Foundations

Reading strategies Reading

Vocabulary Vocab

Reading foundations

A. Letter identification

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Find the letter in the alphabet: uppercase

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Find the letter in the alphabet: lowercase

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Choose the letter that you hear: uppercase

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Choose the letter that you hear: lowercase

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Frequently confused letters: find the letter

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Frequently confused letters: find all the letters

B. Lowercase and uppercase letters

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Choose the lowercase letter that matches: c, k, o, p, s, u, v, w, x, z

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New! Choose the lowercase letter that matches: f, i, j, l, m, t, y

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Choose the lowercase letter that matches: a, b, d, e, g, h, n, q, r

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Find all the lowercase letters

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Choose the uppercase letter that matches: C, K, O, P, S, U, V, W, X, Z

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New! Choose the uppercase letter that matches: F, I, J, L, M, T, Y

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Choose the uppercase letter that matches: A, B, D, E, G, H, N, Q, R

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Find all the uppercase letters

C. Word recognition

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Choose the two words that are the same

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Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly

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Find a word in a sentence

D. Rhyming

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Which word has the same ending?

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Which two words have the same ending?

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Choose the picture that rhymes with the word

E. Blending and segmenting

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Blend onset and rime together to make a word

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Blend each sound in a word together

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Identify the first sound in a word

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Put the sounds in order

F. Consonant sounds and letters

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Which two words start with the same sound?

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Find the word that begins with a given sound

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Which word ends with the same sound?

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Which two words end with the same sound?

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New! Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound: b, d, j, k, p, t, v, z

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New! Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound: f, l, m, n, r, s

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New! Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound: c, g, h, w

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Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound: review

G. Short vowels

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Find the short a word

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Find the short e word

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Find the short i word

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Find the short o word

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Find the short u word

H. Sight words

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Choose the two sight words that are the same

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Read sight words set 1: a, in, run, the, you

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Read sight words set 2: and, had, is, let, to

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Read sight words set 3: at, for, I, one, said

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Read sight words: review sets 1, 2, 3

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Read sight words set 4: can, it, not, up, yes

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Read sight words set 5: an, do, jump, look, make

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Read sight words set 6: down, go, out, so, two

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Read sight words: review sets 4, 5, 6

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Read sight words set 7: find, my, no, red, see

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Read sight words set 8: come, funny, little, me, sit

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Read sight words set 9: big, help, play, three, yellow

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Read sight words set 10: away, blue, here, us, where

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Read sight words: review sets 7, 8, 9, 10

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Read sight words: review sets 1–10

Reading strategies

I. Text features

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Identify book parts and features

J. Reality vs. fiction

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Which could happen in real life?

K. Inference and analysis

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Which feeling matches the picture?

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What will happen next?

Vocabulary

L. Color and number words

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Use color words

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Use number words: one to five

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Use number words: six to ten

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Use number words: one to ten

M. Nouns

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Choose the singular or plural noun that matches the picture

N. Verbs

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Find the picture that matches the action verb

O. Adjectives

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Compare pictures using adjectives

P. Location words

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Inside and outside

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Above and below

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Next to and beside

Q. Antonyms

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Match antonyms to pictures

R. Categories

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Sort objects into categories

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Which one is not like the others?