Year 10 IXL English Skills Matched to the UK National Curriculum

Year 10 GCSE English – IXL Lessons

1. Determine the main idea of a passage
2. Which text is most formal?
3. Identify audience and purpose
4. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
5. Compare passages for tone
6. Identify the narrative point of view
7. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
8. Recall the source of an allusion
9. Interpret figures of speech
10. Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
11. Classify figures of speech: review
12. Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
13. Match the quotations with their themes
14. Analyse short stories: set 1
15. Analyse short stories: set 2
16. Analyse the development of informational passages: set 1
17. Analyse the development of informational passages: set 2
18. Trace an argument: set 1
19. Trace an argument: set 2
20. Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
21. Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
22. Order topics from broadest to narrowest
23. Organise information by topic
24. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
25. Distinguish facts from opinions
26. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
27. Choose the best evidence to support a claim
28. Identify supporting evidence in a text
29. Evaluate counterclaims
30. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
31. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims
32. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements
33. Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing
34. Use personification
35. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
36. Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
37. Identify sentences with parallel structure
38. Use parallel structure
39. Remove redundant words or phrases
40. Identify active and passive voice