IXL English language
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 ten
- Identify adjectives
- Identify adverbs
- Use adjectives to compare
- Use the correct article: a, an or the
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Punctuation and capitalisation
- Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
- Use hyphens in compound adjectives
- Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
- Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
- Join sentences with semicolons, colons and commas
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Figurative language
- Identify similes and metaphors
- Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
- Use personification
- Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
- Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
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Grammar
- One or more than one?
- Identify the adjective that describes the noun
- Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
- Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
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Nouns
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- Identify nouns – with abstract nouns
- Identify common and proper nouns
- Form and use irregular plurals
- Form and use plurals of compound nouns
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Phonics
- Choose the picture that rhymes with the word
- Identify frequently confused letters
- Complete the rhyme
- Blend the sounds together to make a word
- Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words
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Pronouns
- Complete the sentence with the correct personal pronoun
- Pronoun-verb agreement: Complete the sentence with the best verb
- Identify possessive pronouns
- Identify relative pronouns
- Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
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Reading comprehension
- Choose the short e sentence that matches the picture
- Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture
- What is the picture about?
- Choose the silent e sentence that matches the picture
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Reference skills
- Order alphabetically based on the first letter
- Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
- Use dictionary entries
- Use thesaurus entries
- Use dictionary definitions
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Sentences
- Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence
- Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation?
- Identify the subject of a sentence
- Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
- Is the sentence simple, compound or complex?
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Verbs
- Place sentences with irregular verbs on a timeline
- Identify main verbs and helping verbs
- Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
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Vocabulary
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures
- Describe the difference between related words
- Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context