Year 7 IXL English Skills Matched to the UK National Curriculum

Year 7 English – 40 IXL Skills

Year 7 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. Which sentence is more formal?
  5. Compare passages for tone
  6. Identify the author's purpose
  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 figures of speech
  13. Classify figures of speech
  14. Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
  15. Analyse short stories
  16. Read and understand informational passages
  17. Trace an argument
  18. Compare two texts with different genres
  19. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
  20. Order topics from broadest to narrowest
  21. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
  22. Distinguish facts from opinions
  23. Choose evidence to support a claim
  24. Identify supporting details in informational texts
  25. Identify supporting details in literary texts
  26. Identify counterclaims
  27. Use personification
  28. Use the correct frequently confused word
  29. Correct errors with frequently confused words
  30. Identify and correct plagiarism
  31. Words with pre-
  32. Words with re-
  33. Words with sub-
  34. Words with mis-
  35. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
  36. Words with -ful
  37. Words with -less
  38. Words with -able and -ible
  39. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

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