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
- Choose the words that have a given ending
- Find all the words that start with a given sound
- Find the short e word
- Match antonyms to pictures
See all 48 reception skills
Year 1 skills
- Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly
- Spell the short vowel word
- Is the noun a person, animal, place or thing?
- Find the action verb
- Choose the best location word to match the picture
See all 101 year 1 skills
Year 2 skills
- Choose the right end mark
- Select the possessive noun that matches the picture
- Put the sentences in order
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word
- Use words with prefixes and suffixes
See all 156 year 2 skills
Year 3 skills
- Identify the subject of a sentence
- Select the nouns
- Which word is a noun?
- Form and use compound words
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
See all 173 year 3 skills
Year 4 skills
- Change the sentence to future tense
- Identify adjectives
- Use adjectives to compare
- Prefixes and suffixes: review
- Which definition matches the sentence?
See all 112 year 4 skills
Year 5 skills
- Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
- Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
- Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
- Order alphabetically: challenge
- Which sentence matches the definition?
See all 130 year 5 skills
Year 6 skills
- Order adjectives
- Use relative adverbs
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- Find synonyms in context
- Describe the difference between related words
See all 106 year 6 skills
Year 7 skills
- Identify dependent and independent clauses
- Identify pronouns and their antecedents
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- Analogies: challenge
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