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: one to five
- Compare pictures using adjectives
- Does the adjective compare two or more than two?
- Use adjectives to compare
- Use the correct article: a, an or the
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Punctuation and capitalisation
- Greetings and closings of letters
- Capitalising titles
- Commas with compound and complex sentences
- Commas with nonrestrictive elements
- Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
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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: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
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Grammar
- Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence
- Select the best preposition to complete the sentence
- Contractions with "not"
- Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
- Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
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Nouns
- Identify proper nouns
- One or more than one?
- Identify nouns
- Form and use plurals: review
- Identify appositives and appositive phrases
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Phonics
- Identify frequently confused letters
- Sort by the number of syllables
- Which consonant blend does the word end with?
- Choose the correct digraph
- Complete the short a word
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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
- Pronoun-verb agreement: Complete the sentence with the best verb
- Identify relative pronouns
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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
- Order alphabetically based on the first letter
- Use guide words
- Use dictionary entries
- Use dictionary definitions
- Replace words using a thesaurus
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Sentences
- Complete the sentence
- Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation?
- Identify the subject of a sentence
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
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Verbs
- Pronoun-verb agreement: Complete the sentence with the best verb
- To be: use the correct present tense form
- Which sentence is in the regular past tense?
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2
- Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
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Vocabulary
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures
- Choose the synonyms
- Choose the antonyms
- Analogies
- Explore words with new or contested usages