IXL English
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
- Compare pictures using comparative and superlative adjectives
- Does the adjective compare two or more than two?
- Identify adjectives
- Is the word an adjective or adverb?
- Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
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Punctuation and capitalisation
- Capitalise the names of people and pets
- Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
- Correct capitalisation errors
- Commas with coordinate adjectives
- Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
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Figurative language
- Identify similes and metaphors
- Interpret figures of speech
- Interpret the meaning of allusions
- Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
- Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
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Grammar
- Complete the sentence with a noun to match the picture
- Is the noun singular or plural?
- Pronoun-verb agreement
- Use coordinating conjunctions
- Identify the adjective that describes the noun
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Nouns
- Complete the sentence with a noun to match the picture
- Identify proper nouns
- Identify nouns
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- Identify nouns – with abstract nouns
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Phonics
- Choose the words that have a given ending
- Find the short a word
- Sort by the number of syllables
- Complete the short e word
- Sort by initial consonant blend or digraph
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Pronouns
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- Complete the sentence with the correct personal pronoun
- Use the correct possessive pronoun
- Identify personal pronouns
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
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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
- Identify book parts and features
- Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
- Order alphabetically: challenge
- Use thesaurus entries
- Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
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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, compound or complex?
- Is it a phrase or a clause?
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Verbs
- Complete the sentence with the best verb
- To be: use the correct present tense form
- To be: use the correct past tense form
- Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
- Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
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Vocabulary
- Use words with prefixes and suffixes
- Understand words with prefixes and suffixes
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
- Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word