IXL Winter Adventures skill plan - Language arts 7th grade

Keep students learning with IXL's day-by-day skill plan! Find essential IXL skills for solidifying understanding below.

Days
Day 1: Fixer upper		1. Match problems with their solutions 2. Correct errors in everyday use
Day 1: Fixer upper
1. Match problems with their solutions 2. Correct errors in everyday use

Day 2: The real deal		Use the Real-Time Diagnostic for 20 minutes.
Day 2: The real deal
Use the Real-Time Diagnostic for 20 minutes.

Day 3: Wrong place, wrong time		1. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 2. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Day 3: Wrong place, wrong time
1. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 2. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

Day 4: Dare to compare		1. Compare passages for tone 2. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
Day 4: Dare to compare
1. Compare passages for tone 2. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects

Day 5: A story to tell		1. Determine the themes of short stories Activity: Write a story about someone who overcomes a challenge. Be sure your story has a clear theme!
Day 5: A story to tell
1. Determine the themes of short stories Activity: Write a story about someone who overcomes a challenge. Be sure your story has a clear theme!

Day 6: Writing on the wall		Pick two skills from your Recommendations wall to practice!
Day 6: Writing on the wall
Pick two skills from your Recommendations wall to practice!

Day 7: Go figure!		1. Interpret figures of speech 2. Use personification
Day 7: Go figure!
1. Interpret figures of speech 2. Use personification

Day 8: Dear diary		1. Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 1 Activity: Choose a moment in your life to write about. Include details about your thoughts and feelings, as well as what was going on around you.
Day 8: Dear diary
1. Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 1 Activity: Choose a moment in your life to write about. Include details about your thoughts and feelings, as well as what was going on around you.

Day 9: Better together		1. Combine sentences using relative clauses 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Day 9: Better together
1. Combine sentences using relative clauses 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

Day 10: Signs and shapes		1. Correct errors with signs 2. Read graphic organizers
Day 10: Signs and shapes
1. Correct errors with signs 2. Read graphic organizers

Day 11: Learn from the past		1. Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 2 Activity: While completing this skill, create a list of facts that you learned about Anne Frank or World War II. Share a few with a family member or friend.
Day 11: Learn from the past
1. Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 2 Activity: While completing this skill, create a list of facts that you learned about Anne Frank or World War II. Share a few with a family member or friend.

Day 12: You're a boss!		Pick two "Grammar and mechanics" skills to practice!
Day 12: You're a boss!
Pick two "Grammar and mechanics" skills to practice!

Day 13: Out of order		1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Create varied sentences based on models
Day 13: Out of order
1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Create varied sentences based on models

Day 14: Get my meaning?		1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures 2. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
Day 14: Get my meaning?
1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures 2. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

Day 15: Time for a rhyme		1. Label the rhyme scheme Activity: Write a poem about your favorite time of year. Be sure to mention the sounds, sights, tastes, and smells that make it special.
Day 15: Time for a rhyme
1. Label the rhyme scheme Activity: Write a poem about your favorite time of year. Be sure to mention the sounds, sights, tastes, and smells that make it special.

Day 16: Fact or fiction		1. Identify supporting details in literary texts 2. Distinguish facts from opinions
Day 16: Fact or fiction
1. Identify supporting details in literary texts 2. Distinguish facts from opinions

Day 17: Don't quote me on that		1. Match the quotations with their themes 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Day 17: Don't quote me on that
1. Match the quotations with their themes 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue

Day 18: Challenge yourself		Pick a challenge from your awards page and try to earn it!
Day 18: Challenge yourself
Pick a challenge from your awards page and try to earn it!

Day 19: Best of times, worst of times		1. Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst 2. Use parallel structure
Day 19: Best of times, worst of times
1. Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst 2. Use parallel structure

Day 20: Can you see the appeal?		1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Activity: Make a flyer convincing people to try a game, sport, or hobby you enjoy. Be sure to use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos!
Day 20: Can you see the appeal?
1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Activity: Make a flyer convincing people to try a game, sport, or hobby you enjoy. Be sure to use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos!