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!
Reception skills
- Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly
- Find the letter in the alphabet: lowercase
- Choose the picture that rhymes with the word
- Find the picture that matches the action verb
- Use colour words
See all 48 reception skills
Year 1 skills
- Complete the rhyme
- Choose the picture that matches the short e word
- Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture
- Spell the short vowel word
- Is the noun a person, animal, place or thing?
See all 101 year 1 skills
Year 2 skills
- Who, what, when, where or why?
- Complete the sentence
- Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence
- Regular plurals: select the word that matches the picture
- Select the best preposition to complete the sentence
See all 156 year 2 skills
Year 3 skills
- Identify the subject of a sentence
- Identify the irregular past tense I
- Use pronoun-verb contractions
- Use contractions with "not"
- Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes
See all 173 year 3 skills
Year 4 skills
- Is the sentence simple or compound?
- Change the sentence to future tense
- Identify adjectives
- Use subordinating conjunctions
- Which definition matches the sentence?
See all 112 year 4 skills
Year 5 skills
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
- Order alphabetically: challenge
- Find antonyms in context
- Which sentence matches the definition?
See all 130 year 5 skills
Year 6 skills
- Order adjectives
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
- Correct capitalisation errors
- Describe the difference between related words
- Which sentence matches the definition?
See all 106 year 6 skills
Year 7 skills
- Identify dependent and independent clauses
- Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- Correct errors with frequently confused words
- Which sentence is more formal?
See all 112 year 7 skills
Year 8 skills
- Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
- Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
- Positive and negative connotation
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word
- Are the modifiers used correctly?
See all 105 year 8 skills
Year 9 skills
- Use dashes
- Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- Describe the difference between related words
- Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
- Use parallel structure
See all 111 year 9 skills
Year 10 skills
- Semicolons, colons and commas review
- Word pattern analogies
- Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
- Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
- Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
See all 120 year 10 skills
Year 11 skills
- Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
- Word pattern sentences
- Use words accurately and precisely
- Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
- Identify audience and purpose