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 five
- Use number words: one to ten
- Use number words
- Use adverbs to compare
- Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
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Punctuation and capitalisation
- Capitalising the names of people and pets
- Greetings and closings of letters
- Correct capitalisation errors
- Commas with non-restrictive elements
- Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations and appositives
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Figurative language
- Identify similes and metaphors
- Use personification
- Interpret figures of speech
- Identify the source of allusions
- Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
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Grammar
- Is the noun a person, animal, place or thing?
- Select the best preposition to complete the sentence
- Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?
- Select the best preposition to match the picture
- Identify and correct pronoun errors with 'who'
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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
- Identify appositives and appositive phrases
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Phonics
- Choose the uppercase letter that you hear
- Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound
- Blend the sounds together to make a word
- Which consonant blend does the word end with?
- Find the long u word
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Pronouns
- Complete the sentence with the correct personal pronoun
- Use the correct possessive pronoun
- Pronoun-verb agreement: Complete the sentence with the best verb
- Identify personal pronouns
- Identify all of the possible antecedents
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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?
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Reference skills
- Identify book parts and features
- Order alphabetically based on the first letter
- Order alphabetically: challenge
- Use dictionary entries
- Use thesaurus entries
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Sentences
- Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly
- Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation?
- Identify the complete subject of a sentence
- Is the sentence simple or compound?
- Identify subordinating conjunctions
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Verbs
- Use action verbs
- Place sentences with irregular verbs on a timeline
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2
- Change the sentence to future tense
- Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
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Vocabulary
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
- Prefixes and suffixes: review
- Describe the difference between related words
- Words with sub-
- Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-