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!
Adjectives and adverbs
- Use number words: one to five
- Use number words: one to ten
- Use number words
- Use adjectives with more and most
- Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
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Punctuation and capitalization
- Capitalizing the names of people and pets
- Capitalizing titles
- Greetings and closings of letters
- Commas with series, dates, and places
- Commas with coordinate adjectives
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Figurative language
- Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
- Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1
- Interpret the meaning of allusions
- Interpret figures of speech
- Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
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Grammar
- Use the correct article: a or an
- Identify common and proper nouns
- Form the singular or plural possessive
- Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?
- To have: use the correct form
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Nouns
- One or more than one?
- Form regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies
- Form and use irregular plurals
- Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies, and -ves
- Form and use plurals of compound nouns
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Phonics
- Choose the words that have a given ending
- Sort by the number of syllables
- Complete the short a word
- Complete the short e word
- Find the long u word
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Pronouns
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- Use the correct possessive pronoun
- Identify personal pronouns
- Identify pronouns and their antecedents
- Identify all of the possible antecedents
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Reading comprehension
- Choose the short e sentence that matches the picture
- Choose the silent e sentence that matches the picture
- Identify supporting details in literary texts
- Identify text structures
- Identify audience and purpose
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Reference skills
- Identify book parts and features
- Order alphabetically based on the first letter
- Use guide words
- Use dictionary entries
- Use in-text citations with MLA formatting
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Sentences
- Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence
- Use coordinating conjunctions
- Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
- Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex?
- Is it a phrase or a clause?
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Verbs
- Complete the sentence with an action verb to match the picture
- Use the correct subject or verb
- Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?
- Use the correct subject or verb
- Identify participles and what they modify
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Vocabulary
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures
- Which sentence matches the definition?
- Describe the difference between related words
- Explore words with new or contested usages
- Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence