Foundation English

IXL offers more than 100 foundation 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 foundation 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!

Text features

  1. A.1
    Identify book parts and features
  2. A.2
    Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly
  3. A.3
    Choose the two words that are the same

Consonants and vowels

  1. C.1
    Sort consonants and vowels
  2. C.2
    Find the vowel in the word

Syllables

  1. D.1
    How many syllables does the word have?
  2. D.2
    Which word has more syllables?
  3. D.3
    Sort by the number of syllables

Rhyming

  1. E.1
    Choose the words that have a given ending
  2. E.2
    Choose the picture that rhymes with the word
  3. E.3
    Which word does not rhyme?
  4. E.4
    Complete the rhyme

Blending and segmenting

  1. F.1
    Blend the sounds together to make a word
  2. F.2
    Identify the first, second and last sound in a word
  3. F.3
    Put the sounds in order

Capitalisation

  1. N.1
    Capitalise the first letter of a sentence
  2. N.2
    Capitalise the pronoun "I"

Word relationships

  1. O.1
    Match antonyms to pictures
  2. O.2
    Match synonyms
  3. O.3
    Sort objects into categories
  4. O.4
    Which one is not like the others?
  5. O.5
    Multiple-meaning words with pictures

Literacy skills

  1. P.1
    Which could happen in real life?
  2. P.2
    Which feeling matches the picture?
  3. P.3
    What is the picture about?
  4. P.4
    What will happen next?
  5. P.5
    What am I?