Seventh grade language arts IXL

eventh grade language arts

Here is a list of language arts skills students learn in seventh grade! These skills are organized into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practicing, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!

Reading strategies 

 Writing strategies 

 Vocabulary 

 Grammar and mechanics 

Reading strategies

Main idea

1. A.1Determine the main idea

Theme

1. B.1Match the quotations with their themes
2. B.2Determine the themes of short stories

Author's purpose and tone

1. C.1Identify author's purpose
2. C.2Which sentence is more formal?
3. C.3Compare passages for tone

Text structure

1. D.1Compare and contrast
2. D.2Match causes with their effects
3. D.3Match problems with their solutions
4. D.4Identify text structures

 

Literary devices

1. E.1Identify sensory details
2. E.2Identify the narrative point of view
3. E.3Interpret the meaning of allusions
4. E.4Identify the source of allusions
5. E.5Interpret figures of speech
6. E.6Classify figures of speech
7. E.7Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

Analyzing literature

1. F.1Analyze short stories
2. F.2Vocabulary review: Analyze short stories
3. F.3Label the rhyme scheme

 

Analyzing informational texts

1. G.1Read and understand informational passages
2. G.2Vocabulary review: Read and understand informational passages
3. G.3Trace an argument
4. G.4Vocabulary review: Trace an argument

Comparing texts

1. H.1Compare information from two texts
2. H.2Compare two texts with different genres

Visual elements

1. I.1Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
2. I.2Read graphic organizers

Writing strategies

Organizing writing

1. J.1Order topics from broadest to narrowest
2. J.2Organize information by main idea
3. J.3Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

Developing and supporting arguments

1. K.1Identify thesis statements
2. K.2Distinguish facts from opinions
3. K.3Choose evidence to support a claim
4. K.4Identify supporting details in informational texts
5. K.5Identify supporting details in literary texts
6. K.6Classify logical fallacies

 

Persuasive strategies

1. L.1Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements

Creative techniques

1. M.1Use personification
2. M.2Create varied sentences based on models

Editing and revising

1. N.1Use parallel structure
2. N.2Remove redundant words or phrases
3. N.3Use the correct frequently confused word
4. N.4Correct errors with frequently confused words
5. N.5Correct errors with signs
6. N.6Correct errors in everyday use
7. N.7Suggest appropriate revisions

 

Citations

1. O.1Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 7th edition)
2. O.2Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th edition)
3. O.3Use in-text citations with MLA formatting
4. O.4Identify plagiarism

Vocabulary

Prefixes and suffixes

1. P.1Words with pre-
2. P.2Words with re-
3. P.3Words with sub-
4. P.4Words with mis-
5. P.5Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-
6. P.6Words with -ful
7. P.7Words with -less
8. P.8Words with -able and -ible

Greek and Latin roots

1. Q.1Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
2. Q.2Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
3. Q.3Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
4. Q.4Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

 

Synonyms and antonyms

1. R.1Choose the synonym
2. R.2Choose the antonym

Homophones

1. S.1Use the correct homophone
2. S.2Which definition matches the sentence?
3. S.3Which sentence matches the definition?

Shades of meaning

1. T.1Describe the difference between related words
2. T.2Positive and negative connotation

Analogies

1. U.1Analogies
2. U.2Analogies: challenge

 

Context clues

1. V.1Find words using context
2. V.2Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
3. V.3Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
4. V.4Use context to identify the meaning of a word

Domain-specific vocabulary

1. W.1Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures

Reference skills

1. X.1Alphabetical order
2. X.2Use guide words
3. X.3Use dictionary entries
4. X.4Use dictionary definitions
5. X.5Use thesaurus entries

Grammar and mechanics

Sentences, fragments, and run-ons

1. Y.1Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?
2. Y.2Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
3. Y.3Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
4. Y.4Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
5. Y.5Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
6. Y.6Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
7. Y.7Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?

Phrases and clauses

1. Z.1Is it a phrase or a clause?
2. Z.2Identify appositives and appositive phrases
3. Z.3Identify dependent and independent clauses
4. Z.4Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
5. Z.5Combine sentences using relative clauses

Nouns

1. AA.1Form and use plurals: review
2. AA.2Form and use plurals of compound nouns
3. AA.3Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives
4. AA.4Form the singular or plural possessive
5. AA.5Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

Pronouns and antecedents

1. BB.1Identify pronouns and their antecedents
2. BB.2Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
3. BB.3Identify vague pronoun references
4. BB.4Identify all of the possible antecedents
5. BB.5Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

 

Pronoun types

1. CC.1Choose between subject and object pronouns
2. CC.2Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"
3. CC.3Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
4. CC.4Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
5. CC.5Use reflexive pronouns
6. CC.6Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
7. CC.7Use relative pronouns: who and whom
8. CC.8Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that

Verb types

1. DD.1Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
2. DD.2Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns

Subject-verb agreement

1. EE.1Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
2. EE.2Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
3. EE.3Use the correct verb – with compound subjects

Verb tense

1. FF.1Irregular past tense: review
2. FF.2Simple past, present, and future tense: review
3. FF.3Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
4. FF.4Form the progressive verb tenses
5. FF.5Form the perfect verb tenses

Adjectives and adverbs

1. GG.1Identify adjectives
2. GG.2Order adjectives
3. GG.3Identify adverbs
4. GG.4Choose between adjectives and adverbs
5. GG.5Is the word an adjective or adverb?
6. GG.6Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
7. GG.7Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst
8. GG.8Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
9. GG.9Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst

Prepositions

1. HH.1Identify prepositional phrases
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

Direct and indirect objects

1. II.1Is it a direct object or an indirect object?

Conjunctions

1. JJ.1Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

Misplaced modifiers

1. KK.1Misplaced modifiers with pictures
2. KK.2Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
3. KK.3Are the modifiers used correctly?

Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements

1. LL.1What does the punctuation suggest?
2. LL.2Commas with nonrestrictive elements

Commas

1. MM.1Commas with series, dates, and places
2. MM.2Commas with compound and complex sentences
3. MM.3Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters
4. MM.4Commas with coordinate adjectives
5. MM.5Commas: review

Semicolons, colons, and commas

1. NN.1Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
2. NN.2Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists

Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses

1. OO.1Use dashes
2. OO.2Use hyphens in compound adjectives
3. OO.3Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately

Capitalization

1. PP.1Correct capitalization errors
2. PP.2Capitalizing titles

Formatting

1. QQ.1Formatting titles
2. QQ.2Formatting and capitalizing titles: review
3. QQ.3Formatting street addresses
4. QQ.4Formatting quotations and dialogue