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 picture that rhymes with the word
- Identify the first sound in a word
- Use colour words
- Sort objects into categories
- Which could happen in real life?
See all 48 reception skills
Year 1 skills
- Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture
- Spell the short vowel word
- Find a word in a sentence
- Complete the sentence with an action verb to match the picture
- Which could happen in real life?
See all 101 year 1 skills
Year 2 skills
- Who, what, when, where or why?
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- Use sense words
- Identify time-order words
- Sort words into categories
See all 156 year 2 skills
Year 3 skills
- Identify the subject of a sentence
- Sort common and proper nouns
- Place sentences with irregular verbs on a timeline
- Use contractions with "not"
- Sort words into categories
See all 173 year 3 skills
Year 4 skills
- Is the sentence simple or compound?
- Form and use the regular past 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?
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- Use the correct modal verb
- Choose the synonym
- Which sentence matches the definition?
See all 130 year 5 skills
Year 6 skills
- Order adjectives
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- Describe the difference between related words
See all 106 year 6 skills
Year 7 skills
- Identify pronouns and their antecedents
- Identify vague pronoun references
- Correct capitalisation errors
- Analogies: challenge
- 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
- 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
- Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
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