Grade 5 English language arts
Here is a list of English language arts skills students learn in grade 5! These skills are organized into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
Sentence structure
- A.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- A.2 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
- A.3 Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
- A.4 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
- A.5 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
- A.6 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
- A.7 Identify dependent and independent clauses
- A.8 Is the sentence simple or compound?
- A.9 Is the sentence simple, compound or complex?
Nouns
- B.1 Identify nouns – with abstract nouns
- B.2 Identify common and proper nouns
- B.3 Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
- B.4 Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
- B.5 Form plurals: review
- B.6 Form and use plurals: review
- B.7 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- B.8 Form the singular or plural possessive
- B.9 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Pronouns
- C.1 Identify personal pronouns
- C.2 Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- C.3 Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- C.4 Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"
- C.5 Compound subjects and objects with personal pronouns
- C.6 Use possessive pronouns
- C.7 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
- C.8 Use reflexive pronouns
- C.9 Identify relative pronouns
- C.10 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- C.11 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
Verbs
- D.1 Identify main verbs and helping verbs
- D.2 What does the modal verb show?
- D.3 Use the correct modal verb
- D.4 Use the correct subject or verb
- D.5 Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects
- D.6 Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?
- D.7 Form and use the regular past tense
- D.8 Form and use the irregular past tense
- D.9 Form and use the simple past, present and future tense
- D.10 Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
- D.11 Use the progressive verb tenses
- D.12 Form the progressive verb tenses
- D.13 Choose between the past tense and past participle
- D.14 Use the perfect verb tenses
- D.15 Form the perfect verb tenses
Adjectives and adverbs
- E.1 Identify adjectives
- E.2 Order adjectives
- E.3 Identify adverbs
- E.4 Use relative adverbs
- E.5 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- E.6 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
- E.7 Use adjectives to compare
- E.8 Spell adjectives that compare
- E.9 Use adjectives with more and most
- E.10 Use adverbs to compare
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Contractions
Punctuation, capitalization and formatting
Greek and Latin roots
- K.1 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- K.2 Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- K.3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- K.4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- K.5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Reference skills
Word relationships and usage
- M.1 Choose the synonym
- M.2 Find synonyms in context
- M.3 Choose the antonym
- M.4 Find antonyms in context
- M.5 Describe the difference between related words
- M.6 Positive and negative connotation
- M.7 Use the correct homophone
- M.8 Which definition matches the sentence?
- M.9 Which sentence matches the definition?
- M.10 Use the correct frequently confused word
- M.11 Correct errors with frequently confused words
- M.12 Analogies
Author's purpose and tone
Figurative language
- O.1 Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1
- O.2 Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 1
- O.3 Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2
- O.4 Identify the meaning of idioms and adages: set 2
- O.5 Identify similes and metaphors
- O.6 Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors