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 words that have a given ending
- Find the short e word
- Sort objects into categories
- Which could happen in real life?
See all 48 reception skills
Year 1 skills
- Find the short a word
- Complete the short i words
- Find the long a word
- Is the noun a person, animal, place or thing?
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures
See all 101 year 1 skills
Year 2 skills
- Regular plurals: select the word that matches the picture
- Select the possessive noun that matches the picture
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- Compare pictures using comparative and superlative adjectives
- Choose the antonyms
See all 156 year 2 skills
Year 3 skills
- Identify the subject of a sentence
- Identify articles
- Select the best preposition to match the picture
- Use contractions with "not"
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
See all 173 year 3 skills
Year 4 skills
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- Use the correct subject or verb
- Form and use the regular past tense
- Use adjectives to compare
- Describe the difference between related words
See all 112 year 4 skills
Year 5 skills
- Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
- Form the progressive verb tenses
- Use the correct article: a, an or the
- Choose the synonym
- Which sentence matches the definition?
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Year 6 skills
- Order adjectives
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- 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
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- Correct errors with frequently confused words
- 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
- 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
- Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
- Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
- 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