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
- Find the letter in the alphabet: lowercase
- Choose the picture that rhymes with the word
- Find all the words that start with a given sound
- Compare pictures using adjectives
- Sort objects into categories
See all 48 reception skills
Year 1 skills
- How many syllables does the word have?
- Spell the sight word
- Choose the singular or plural noun that matches the picture
- Which one is not like the others?
- Which could happen in real life?
See all 101 year 1 skills
Year 2 skills
- Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence
- Is the noun a person, animal, place or thing?
- Select the sentence that tells about the present
- Identify comparative and superlative adjectives
- Form contractions with 'not'
See all 156 year 2 skills
Year 3 skills
- Identify the subject of a sentence
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2
- Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?
- Form pronoun-verb contractions
- Order related words based on meaning
See all 173 year 3 skills
Year 4 skills
- Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
- Use the correct subject or verb
- Change the sentence to future tense
- Use adjectives to compare
- Prefixes and suffixes: review
See all 112 year 4 skills
Year 5 skills
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
- Use coordinating conjunctions
- Order alphabetically: challenge
- Find antonyms in context
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Year 6 skills
- Use the correct modal verb
- Form the perfect verb tenses
- Order adjectives
- Correct capitalisation errors
- Describe the difference between related words
See all 106 year 6 skills
Year 7 skills
- Identify pronouns and their antecedents
- 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
- Commas with coordinate adjectives
- Positive and negative connotation
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word
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
- Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
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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