Year 6 English

IXL offers more than 100 year 6 English skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Hover your mouse over any skill name to preview it, then click to practise!

IXL offers more than 100 year 6 English skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Hover your mouse over any skill name to preview it, then click to practise!

Prepositions

  1. F.1
    Identify prepositions
  2. F.2
    Identify prepositions and their objects
  3. F.3
    Identify prepositional phrases
  4. F.4
    Prepositions: review

Contractions

  1. H.1
    Pronoun-verb contractions
  2. H.2
    Contractions with "not"

Prefixes and suffixes

  1. J.1
    Words with pre-
  2. J.2
    Words with re-
  3. J.3
    Words with sub-
  4. J.4
    Words with mis-
  5. J.5
    Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
  6. J.6
    Words with -ful
  7. J.7
    Words with -less
  8. J.8
    Words with -able and -ible

Reference skills

  1. L.1
    Alphabetical order
  2. L.2
    Use guide words
  3. L.3
    Use dictionary entries
  4. L.4
    Use dictionary definitions
  5. L.5
    Use thesaurus entries

Author's purpose and tone

  1. N.1
    Which sentence is more formal?

Literary devices

  1. O.1
    Use personification
  2. O.2
    Interpret figures of speech
  3. O.3
    Classify figures of speech