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
- Find all the words that start with a given sound
- Find the short e word
- Use colour words
- Which could happen in real life?
See all 48 reception skills
Year 1 skills
- Complete the rhyme
- Put the sounds in order
- Which two words end with the same sound?
- Complete the sentence with an action verb to match the picture
- Capitalise the first letter of a sentence
See all 101 year 1 skills
Year 2 skills
- Regular plurals: select the word that matches the picture
- Select the sentence that tells about the past
- Identify comparative and superlative adjectives
- Put the words in ABC order
- Order related words based on meaning
See all 87 year 2 skills
Year 3 skills
- Select the nouns
- Select the best preposition to match the picture
- Put the sentences in order
- Use pronoun-verb contractions
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
See all 106 year 3 skills
Year 4 skills
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- Use adjectives to compare
- Use subordinating conjunctions
- Prefixes and suffixes: review
- 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?
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects
- Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review
- Choose the synonym
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Year 6 skills
- Use the correct modal verb
- Order adjectives
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
- 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
- Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
- Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
- Correct capitalisation errors
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
- 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
- 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