Grade 9 English language arts
IXL offers more than 100 grade 9 English language arts skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalized Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, state standards, or standardized test.
IXL offers more than 100 grade 9 English language arts skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalized Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, state standards, or standardized test.
Reading strategies
Main idea
Audience, purpose and tone
Literary devices
Analyzing literature
Analyzing informational texts
Writing strategies
Organizing writing
Topic sentences and thesis statements
Developing and supporting arguments
Persuasive strategies
Creative techniques
Writing clearly and concisely
Active and passive voice
Editing and revising
Vocabulary
Prefixes and suffixes
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O.3
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O.4
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O.5
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O.6
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O.8
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O.9
Greek and Latin roots
Homophones
Foreign words and expressions
Analogies
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T.1
Context clues
Reference skills
Grammar and mechanics
Sentences, fragments and run-ons
Phrases and clauses
Pronouns
Verb types
Subject-verb agreement
Verb tense
Adjectives and adverbs
Conjunctions
Misplaced modifiers
Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements
Commas
Semicolons, colons and commas
Dashes, hyphens and ellipses
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JJ.1
Apostrophes
Capitalization
Formatting
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MM.2
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MM.3