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
- Identify articles
- Use adjectives to compare
- Use adjectives with more and most
- Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
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Punctuation and capitalisation
- Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
- Greetings and closings of letters
- Capitalising titles
- What does the punctuation suggest?
- Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations and appositives
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Figurative language
- Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
- Use personification
- Interpret figures of speech
- Classify figures of speech
- Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
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Grammar
- Is the noun a person, animal, place or thing?
- Select the best preposition to match the picture
- Replace the plural noun with a personal pronoun
- Pronoun-verb agreement
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
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Nouns
- Identify nouns
- Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
- Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves
- Form and use plurals: review
- Form and use plurals of compound nouns
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Phonics
- Blend the sounds together to make a word
- Blend the sounds together to make a word
- Sort by initial consonant blend or digraph
- Complete the word with a three-letter consonant blend
- Complete the word with the correct diphthong: oi, oy, ou, ow
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Pronouns
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- Identify possessive pronouns
- Identify relative pronouns
- Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
- 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?
- Choose the silent e sentence that matches the picture
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Reference skills
- Identify book parts and features
- Use guide words
- Use dictionary entries
- Use dictionary definitions
- 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?
- Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence
- Is the sentence simple or compound?
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
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Verbs
- Identify action verbs
- To have: use the correct form
- Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?
- Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
- Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
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Vocabulary
- Use words with prefixes and suffixes
- Understand words with prefixes and suffixes
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
- Which sentence matches the definition?
- Find synonyms in context