IXL Additional Practice

Recommended Skills 

for Extra Practice

September 2024

Week 1 (9/9-9/15):

1. Identify sensory details (PMB)

2. Use personification (UBQ)

3. Find words using context (QAU)

4. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? (U6K)

5. Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence (UD5)

Week 2 (9/16-9/22):

1. Identify the narrative point of view (5HK)

2. Create varied sentences based on models (RKF)

3. Choose the synonym (SXV)

4. Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence (UER)

5. Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence (2H7)

Week 3 (9/23-9/29):

1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source (VNX)

2. Identify supporting details in literary texts (W8V)

3. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context (R5L)

4. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? (GD9)

5. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? (7F7)

October 2024

Week 4 (9/30-10/4):

1. Recall the source of an allusion  (7QQ)

2. Analyze passages from A Long Walk to Water: Part 1 (EB2)

3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (MBU)

4. Is it a phrase or a clause? (LMH)

5. Identify appositives and appositive phrases (QRC)

Week 5 (10/7-10/11):

1. Interpret figures of speech (D9X)

2. Analyze passages from A Long Walk to Water: Part 2 (9L3)

3. Use the correct frequently confused word  (9CZ)

4. Words with pre- (BD8)

5. What does the punctuation suggest?  (9AR)

6. Commas with nonrestrictive elements (RAL)

Week 6 (10/14-10/18):

1. Classify figures of speech (E9A) 

2. Words with -ful (VYF)

3. Identify dependent and independent clauses (R9X)

4. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? (CCW)

5. Commas with compound and complex sentences (U65)

Week 7 (10/21-10/25)

1. Compare passages for tone  (6RG)

2. Correct errors with signs (LW8) 

3. Choose the antonym (RJM)

4. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that (8KS)

5. Combine sentences using relative clauses (55A)

Week 8 (10/28-11/1)

1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone  (R8B)

2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context (WZC)

3. Form and use plurals: review (QSP)

4. Form and use plurals of compound nouns (GMJ)

November 2024

Week 9 (11/4-11/8):

1. Match the quotations with their themes  (XJK)

2. Remove redundant words or phrases  (BGN)

3. Describe the difference between related words (G57)

4. Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives  (QDE)

5. Form the singular or plural possessive (GWU)

6. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (FWH)

Week 10 (11/11-11/15):

1. Determine the themes of short stories  

2. Alphabetical order 

3. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses 

4. Commas with series, dates, and places 

5. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters 

Week 11 (11/18-11/22):

1. Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 1  

2. Distinguish facts from opinions 

3. Use guide words 

4. Identify transitive and intransitive verbs 

5. Is it a direct object or an indirect object? 

6. Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns 

December 2024

Week 12 (12/2-12/6):

1. Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 2 

2. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb 

3. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement 

4. Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement 

5. Use the correct verb – with compound subjects  

Week 13 (12/9-12/13):

1. Analyze short stories  

2. Choose evidence to support a claim 

3. Use dictionary entries 

4. Identify pronouns and their antecedents 

5. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent 

Week 14 (12/16-12/20):

1. Draw inferences from literary texts  

2. Identify counterclaims  

3. Use dictionary definitions 

4. Identify vague pronoun references 

5. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person 

Recommended Skills 

for Extra Practice

September 2024

Week 1 (9/9-9/15):

1. Determine the main idea of a passage (TH7)

2. Order topics from broadest to narrowest (JBM)

3. Use the correct homophone (3C7)

4. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? (AGY)

5. Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence (AH2)

Week 2 (9/16-9/22):

1. Compare and contrast in informational texts (8ZK)

2. Organize information by topic (2CA)

3. Which definition matches the sentence? (WWZ)

4. Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence (Q8N)

5. Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence (K83)

Week 3 (9/23-9/29):

1. Match causes and effects in informational texts (WK9)

2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (6VK)

3. Which sentence matches the definition? (TYP)

4. Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" (U2Z)

5. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? (HPN)

October 2024

Week 4 (9/30-10/4):

1. Match problems with their solutions

2. Identify thesis statements

3. Words with pre-

4. Is it a phrase or a clause?

5. Identify appositives and appositive phrases

Week 5 (10/7-10/11):

1. Identify text structures

2. Use the correct frequently confused word

3. Words with re-

4. What does the punctuation suggest?

5. Commas with nonrestrictive elements

Week 6 (10/14-10/18):

1. Read and understand informational passages

2. Use parallel structure

3. Identify dependent and independent clauses

4. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?

5. Commas with compound and complex sentences

Week 7 (10/21-10/25)

1. Identify supporting details in informational texts

2. Alphabetical order

3. Use guide words

4. Use relative pronouns: who and whom

5. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that

6. Combine sentences using relative clauses

Week 8 (10/28-11/1)

1. Compare information from two texts

2. Correct errors in everyday use

3. Use dictionary entries

4. Form and use plurals: review

5. Form and use plurals of compound nouns

November 2024

Week 9 (11/4-11/8):

1. Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 1

2. Suggest appropriate revisions

3. Use dictionary definitions

4. Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives

5. Form the singular or plural possessive

Week 10 (11/11-11/15):

1. Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 2

2. Read graphic organizers

3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

4. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

5. Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession

Week 11 (11/18-11/22):

1. Trace an argument

2. Distinguish facts from opinions

3. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational

4. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses

5. Commas with series, dates, and places

6. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters 

December 2024

Week 12 (12/2-12/6):

1. Choose evidence to support a claim

2. Words with -ful

3. Words with -less

4. Identify transitive and intransitive verbs

5. Is it a direct object or an indirect object?

Week 13 (12/9-12/13):

1. Identify the author's purpose

2. Which sentence is more formal?

3. Identify counterclaims

4. Use thesaurus entries

5. Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns

6. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement 

Week 14 (12/16-12/20):

1. Classify logical fallacies

2. Find words using context

3. Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement

4. Use the correct verb – with compound subjects