Reception English

IXL offers dozens of reception English skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Hover your mouse over any skill name to preview it, then click to practise!

IXL offers dozens of reception English skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Hover your mouse over any skill name to preview it, then click to practise!

Text features

  1. A.1
    Identify book parts and features
  2. A.2
    Choose the sentence that is spaced correctly
  3. A.3
    Choose the two words that are the same

Rhyming

  1. C.1
    Choose the words that have a given ending
  2. C.2
    Choose the picture that rhymes with the word

Blending and segmenting

  1. D.1
    Blend the sounds together to make a word
  2. D.2
    Identify the first sound in a word
  3. D.3
    Put the sounds in order

Short vowels

  1. F.1
    Find the short a word
  2. F.2
    Find the short e word
  3. F.3
    Find the short i word
  4. F.4
    Find the short o word
  5. F.5
    Find the short u word

Sight words

  1. G.1
    Find a word in a sentence
  2. G.2
    Choose the two sight words that are the same
  3. G.3
    Choose the sight word that you hear

Word relationships

  1. I.1
    Match antonyms to pictures
  2. I.2
    Sort objects into categories
  3. I.3
    Which one is not like the others?

Literacy skills

  1. J.1
    Which could happen in real life?
  2. J.2
    Which feeling matches the picture?
  3. J.3
    What will happen next?