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Fifth grade language arts Here is a list of language arts skills students learn in fifth grade! These skills are organized into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to view a sample question. To start practicing, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
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Sentence types
Adjectives and adverbs
Greek and Latin roots
A.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?
W.1 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
UU.1 Match words with Greek and Latin roots to their meanings
W.2 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
UU.2 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
Sentence creation
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B.1 Order the words to create a sentence B.2 Create a sentence based on the model
Subject and predicate C.1 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence C.2 Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
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X.2 Spell adjectives that compare
Adverbs that compare
UU.6 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Y.1 Use adverbs to compare
UU.7 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Prepositions
Z.3 Identify prepositional phrases
Simple, compound, and complex sentences E.1 Is the sentence simple or compound? E.3 Identify dependent and independent clauses E.4 Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex?
Nouns F.1 Identify nouns – with abstract nouns F.2 Identify common and proper nouns
Regular plural nouns G.1 Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, and y
UU.4 Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots UU.5 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
D.1 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? D.2 Is it a complete sentence or a runon?
UU.3 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
X.3 Use adjectives with more and most
Z.1 Identify prepositions
E.2 Create compound sentences
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X.1 Use adjectives to compare
Sentences, fragments, and run-ons
D.3 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?
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Adjectives that compare
Z.2 Identify prepositions and their objects Z.4 Prepositions: review
Contractions
Context clues VV.1 Find words using context VV.2 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context VV.3 Use context to identify the meaning of a word VV.4 Determine the meaning of domainspecific words with pictures
AA.1 Pronoun-verb contractions AA.2 Contractions with "not"
Coordinating conjunctions
Alphabetical order WW.1 Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
BB.1 Identify coordinating conjunctions
WW.2 Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
BB.2 Use coordinating conjunctions
WW.3 Order alphabetically: challenge
Subordinating conjunctions
Dictionary skills
CC.1 Identify subordinating conjunctions
XX.1 Use guide words XX.2 Use dictionary entries
Correlative conjunctions DD.1 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions DD.2 Fill in the missing correlative conjunction
XX.3 Use dictionary definitions
Thesaurus skills YY.1 Use thesaurus entries
Commas
Main idea
EE.1 Commas with a series
ZZ.1 Organize information by main idea
EE.2 Commas with dates and places
ZZ.2 Determine the main idea
G.4 Form and use plurals: review
EE.3 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, and interjections
Opinions
Possessive nouns
EE.4 Commas with compound and complex sentences
H.1 Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives
EE.5 Commas: review
AAA.2 Identify an author's statement of opinion
Capitalization
Reasons and
G.2 Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, and y G.3 Form plurals: review
H.2 Form the singular or plural possessive
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AAA.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
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Subject-verb agreement I.1 Use the correct subject or verb I.2 Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects
IXL - Fifth grade language arts practice FF.1 Correct capitalization errors
Addresses GG.1 Formatting street addresses
Titles HH.1 Capitalizing titles
Simple verb tense review
HH.2 Formatting titles
J.1 Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?
HH.3 Formatting and capitalizing titles
J.2 Form and use the regular past tense
Quotations and dialogue
J.3 Form and use the irregular past tense J.4 Form and use the simple past, present, and future tense
Inappropriate shifts in verb tense K.1 Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Helping verbs L.1 Identify main verbs and helping verbs
Progressive verb tenses M.1 Use the progressive verb tenses M.2 Form the progressive verb tenses
Perfect verb tenses N.1 Use the perfect verb tenses N.2 Form the perfect verb tenses N.3 Choose between the past tense and past participle
Modal auxiliaries
BBB.1 Choose reasons to an opinion BBB.2 Identify ing details in literary texts BBB.3 Identify ing details in informational texts
Author's purpose and tone CCC.1 Identify the purpose of a text CCC.2 Which sentence is more formal?
Compare and contrast texts
II.1 Punctuating dialogue
DDD.1 Compare information from two texts
Usage errors
Logical transitions
JJ.1 Correct errors with signs
EEE.1 Choose the best transition
Frequently confused words
Sequence
KK.1 Use the correct frequently confused word
FFF.1 Put the sentences in order
KK.2 Correct errors with frequently confused words
Homophones
Text structure GGG.1 Compare and contrast in informational texts
LL.1 Homophones with pictures
GGG.2 Match problems with their solutions
LL.2 Use the correct homophone
GGG.3 Match causes with their effects
Multiple-meaning words MM.1 Multiple-meaning words with pictures MM.2 Which sentence matches the definition? MM.3 Which definition matches the sentence?
GGG.4 Determine the order of events in informational texts GGG.5 Identify text structures
Short stories HHH.1 Identify story elements HHH.2 Analyze short stories
O.1 What does the modal verb show?
Synonyms
Visual elements
O.2 Use the correct modal verb
NN.1 Choose the synonym
III.1 Compare mythological illustrations
NN.2 Find synonyms in context
III.2 Read graphic organizers
Antonyms
Describing characters
OO.1 Choose the antonym
JJJ.1 Use actions and dialogue to understand characters
Personal pronouns P.1 Identify pronouns P.2 Choose between subject and object pronouns
OO.2 Find antonyms in context
P.3 Replace the noun with a pronoun
JJJ.2 Show character emotions and traits JJJ.3 Compare and contrast characters
P.4 Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"
Shades of meaning
P.5 Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
PP.1 Describe the difference between related words
Point of view
PP.2 Positive and negative connotation
KKK.1 Identify the narrative point of view
Possessive pronouns Q.1 Use possessive pronouns
Reflexive pronouns R.1 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns R.2 Use reflexive pronouns
Relative pronouns S.1 Identify relative pronouns S.2 Use relative pronouns: who and whom S.3 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that
Related words QQ.1 Order items from most general to most specific QQ.2 Select the of a group
Sensory details LLL.1 Sort sensory details LLL.2 Identify sensory details
QQ.3 Select the words that don't belong
Figurative language Analogies RR.1 Analogies
Word patterns SS.1 Word pattern analogies SS.2 Word pattern sentences
MMM.1 Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1 MMM.2 Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1 MMM.3 Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 MMM.4 Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2 MMM.5 Similes and metaphors with
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Prefixes and suffixes
Relative adverbs T.1 Use relative adverbs
Adjectives
TT.1 Words with pre-
MMM.6 Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
TT.2 Words with re-
MMM.7 Identify similes and metaphors
TT.3 Words with sub-
MMM.8 Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
TT.4 Words with mis-
U.1 Identify adjectives
MMM.9 Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
TT.5 Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-
U.2 Order adjectives
TT.6 Words with -ful
Adverbs V.1 Identify adverbs
TT.7 Words with -less
Poetry
TT.8 Words with -able and -ible
NNN.1 Label the rhyme scheme
TT.9 Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning
NNN.2 Identify elements of poetry
TT.10 Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech
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