Year 9 IXL English Skills Matched to the UK National Curriculum

Year 9 English – 40 IXL Skills

Year 9 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
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  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. Identify active and passive voice
  32. Rewrite the sentence in active voice
  33. Use parallel structure
  34. Remove redundant words or phrases
  35. Identify and correct plagiarism
  36. Words with pre-
  37. Words with re-
  38. Words with sub-
  39. Words with mis-
  40. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
  41. Words with -ful

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