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IXL offers more than 100 grade 6 English language arts skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalized Recommendationswall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skillplan that aligns to your textbook, provincial curriculum, or standardized test.
Reading strategies Reading
Writing strategies Writing
Vocabulary Vocab
Grammar and mechanics Grammar
Reading strategies
A. Main idea
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Determine the main idea of a passage
B. Theme
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1
Match the quotations with their themes
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2
Determine the themes of short stories
C. Author's purpose and tone
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Which sentence is more formal?
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2
Compare passages for tone
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3
Identify the author's purpose
D. Point of view
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Determine the author's point of view
E. Text structure
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Compare and contrast in informational texts
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Match causes and effects in informational texts
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Match problems with their solutions
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Identify text structures
F. Literary devices
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Interpret figures of speech
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Classify figures of speech
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Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
G. Analyzing literature
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Analyze short stories
H. Analyzing informational texts
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Read and understand informational passages
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Trace an argument
I. Comparing texts
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Compare two texts with different genres
J. Visual elements
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Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
Writing strategies
K. Organizing writing
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Order topics from broadest to narrowest
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Organize information by topic
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3
Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
L. Developing and supporting arguments
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Distinguish facts from opinions
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Choose evidence to support a claim
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Identify supporting details in literary texts
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Identify supporting details in informational texts
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Identify counterclaims
M. Creative techniques
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Use personification
N. Editing and revising
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Use the correct frequently confused word
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Correct errors with frequently confused words
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Correct errors with signs
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Suggest appropriate revisions
O. Research skills
Vocabulary
P. Prefixes and suffixes
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Words with pre-
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Words with re-
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Words with sub-
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Words with mis-
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Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
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Words with -ful
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Words with -less
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Words with -able and -ible
Q. Greek and Latin roots
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Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
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Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
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Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
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Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
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Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
R. Synonyms and antonyms
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Choose the synonym
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Find synonyms in context
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Choose the antonym
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Find antonyms in context
S. hom*ophones
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Use the correct hom*ophone
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2
Which definition matches the sentence?
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Which sentence matches the definition?
T. Idioms and adages
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Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1
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Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1
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3
Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2
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Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2
U. Shades of meaning
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Describe the difference between related words
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2
Positive and negative connotation
V. Analogies
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Analogies
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2
Analogies: challenge
W. Context clues
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Find words using context
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Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
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Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
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Use context to identify the meaning of a word
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Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
X. Reference skills
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Alphabetical order
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Use guide words
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3
Use dictionary entries
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Use dictionary definitions
Grammar and mechanics
Y. Sentences, fragments and run-ons
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Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
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Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
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3
Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
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Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
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Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
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Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
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Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
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Identify dependent and independent clauses
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Is the sentence simple, compound or complex?
Z. Nouns
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Identify common and proper nouns
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Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
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3
Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
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4
Form plurals: review
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Form and use plurals: review
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Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
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Form the singular or plural possessive
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Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
AA. Pronouns and antecedents
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Identify pronouns and their antecedents
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Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
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Identify vague pronoun references
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Identify all of the possible antecedents
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5
Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
BB. Pronoun types
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Choose between subject and object pronouns
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Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"
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Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
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Use possessive pronouns
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Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
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Use reflexive pronouns
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Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
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Identify relative pronouns
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Use relative pronouns: who and whom
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Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
CC. Verb types
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Identify main verbs and helping verbs
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Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
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Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
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What does the modal verb show?
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Use the correct modal verb
DD. Subject-verb agreement
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Use the correct subject or verb
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Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
EE. Verb tense
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Irregular past tense: review
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Simple past, present and future tense: review
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Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
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Use the progressive verb tenses
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Form the progressive verb tenses
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Choose between the past tense and past participle
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Use the perfect verb tenses
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Form the perfect verb tenses
FF. Adjectives and adverbs
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Identify adjectives
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Order adjectives
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Identify adverbs
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Use relative adverbs
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Choose between adjectives and adverbs
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Is the word an adjective or adverb?
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Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
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Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
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Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
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Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
GG. Prepositions
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Identify prepositions
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Identify prepositions and their objects
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Identify prepositional phrases
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Prepositions: review
HH. Conjunctions
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Use coordinating conjunctions
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Identify coordinating conjunctions
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Identify subordinating conjunctions
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Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
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Fill in the missing correlative conjunction
II. Contractions
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Pronoun-verb contractions
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Contractions with "not"
JJ. Punctuation
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Commas with compound and complex sentences
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Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
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Commas with coordinate adjectives
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What does the punctuation suggest?
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Commas with nonrestrictive elements
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Use dashes
KK. Capitalization
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Correct capitalization errors
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Capitalizing titles
LL. Formatting
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Formatting titles
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Formatting and capitalizing titles: review
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Formatting quotations and dialogue
