Year 11 IXL English Skills Matched to the UK National Curriculum

Year 11 English – IXL Lessons

1. Determine the main idea of a passage
2. Which text is most formal?
3. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
4. Identify audience and purpose
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. Analyse short stories: set 1
14. Analyse short stories: set 2
15. Analyse the development of informational passages: set 1
16. Analyse the development of informational passages: set 2
17. Trace an argument: set 1
18. Trace an argument: set 2
19. Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
20. Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
21. Order topics from broadest to narrowest
22. Organise information by topic
23. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
24. Distinguish facts from opinions
25. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
26. Choose the best evidence to support a claim
27. Identify supporting evidence in a text
28. Evaluate counterclaims
29. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
30. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims
31. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements
32. Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing
33. Use personification
34. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
35. Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons

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