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
- Use number words
- Does the adjective compare two or more than two?
- Identify adjectives
- Use adjectives with more and most
- Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
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Punctuation and capitalisation
- Capitalise the names of people and pets
- Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
- Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
- Commas with nonrestrictive elements
- Join sentences with semicolons, colons and commas
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Figurative language
- Identify similes and metaphors
- Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
- Interpret figures of speech
- Classify figures of speech
- Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
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Grammar
- Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence
- Use pronoun-verb contractions
- To have: use the correct form
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
- Pronouns after 'than' and 'as'
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Nouns
- Which word is a noun?
- Identify common and proper nouns
- Form and use irregular plurals
- Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves
- Form and use plurals: review
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Phonics
- Choose the letter that you hear: uppercase
- Choose the words that have a given ending
- Choose the letter that matches the consonant sound
- Which consonant blend does the word end with?
- Complete the word with the correct diphthong: oi, oy, ou, ow
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Pronouns
- Use the correct possessive pronoun
- Pronoun-verb agreement: Complete the sentence with the best verb
- Identify personal pronouns
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- Identify pronouns and their 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?
- 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 letter
- Use thesaurus entries
- Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
- Replace words using a thesaurus
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Sentences
- Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly
- Is it the naming or action part of the sentence?
- Identify the complete subject of a sentence
- Is the sentence simple or compound?
- Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
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Verbs
- Use the correct subject or verb
- Identify the irregular past tense I
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
- Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
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Vocabulary
- Match synonyms
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures
- Which sentence has the same meaning?
- Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
- Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence