Year 8 IXL English Skills Matched to the UK National Curriculum

Year 8 English (UK curriculum) – IXL Lessons

1. Determine the main idea of a passage
2. Match the quotations with their themes
3. Determine the themes of short stories
4. Identify the author's purpose
5. Which sentence is more formal?
6. Compare passages for tone
7. Determine the author's point of view
8. Compare and contrast in informational texts
9. Match causes and effects in informational texts
10. Match problems with their solutions
11. Identify text structures
12. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
13. Recall the source of an allusion
14. Interpret figures of speech
15. Classify figures of speech
16. Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
17. Analyse short stories
18. Read and understand informational passages
19. Trace an argument
20. Compare two texts with different genres
21. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
22. Order topics from broadest to narrowest
23. Organise information by topic
24. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
25. Distinguish facts from opinions
26. Choose evidence to support a claim
27. Identify supporting details in informational texts
28. Identify supporting details in literary texts
29. Identify counterclaims
30. Use personification
31. Use parallel structure
32. Remove redundant words or phrases
33. Use the correct frequently confused word

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