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    Learning

    Recs Math Language arts FL Standards Awards

    Grades Topics Skill plans Ninth grade

    Ninth grade language arts


    IXL offers more than 100 ninth grade language arts skills to
    explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your
    personalized Recommendations wall and choose a skill that looks
    interesting—they’re all picked just for you!

    Reading Writing Vocab Grammar

    Reading strategies
    A. Main idea
    1 Determine the main idea

    B. Audience, purpose, and tone


    1 Which text is most formal?
    2 Identify audience and purpose
    3 Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
    4 Compare passages for tone

    C. Literary devices
    1 Identify the narrative point of view
    2 Interpret the meaning of allusions
    3 Identify the source of allusions
    4 Interpret figures of speech (100)
    5 Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole,
    oxymoron, paradox
    6 Classify figures of speech: review

    D. Analyzing literature
    1 Match the quotations with their themes
    2 Analyze short stories: set 1 (100)
    3 Analyze short stories: set 2 (100)
    4 Identify elements of poetry

    E. Analyzing informational texts


    1 Analyze the development of informational passages:
    set 1 (96)
    2 Analyze the development of informational passages:
    set 2 (94)
    3 Trace an argument: set 1 (88)
    4 Trace an argument: set 2 (86)
    5 Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
    (90)
    6 Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2

    Writing strategies
    F. Organizing writing
    1 Order topics from broadest to narrowest
    2 Organize information by main idea

    G. Topic sentences and thesis statements


    1 Choose the topic sentence that best captures the
    main idea
    2 Identify thesis statements

    H. Developing and supporting arguments


    1 Distinguish facts from opinions
    • New! Identify stronger and weaker evidence to
    support a claim
    2 Choose the best evidence to support a claim (100)
    3 Identify supporting evidence in a text
    4 Evaluate counterclaims
    5 Choose the analysis that logically connects the
    evidence to the claim
    6 Transition logically between claims, evidence,
    analysis, and counterclaims
    7 Classify logical fallacies

    I. Persuasive strategies
    1 Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in
    advertisements (100)
    2 Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in
    persuasive writing (82)

    J. Creative techniques
    1 Use personification

    K. Writing clearly and concisely


    1 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
    2 Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons
    3 Identify sentences with parallel structure
    4 Use parallel structure
    5 Remove redundant words or phrases

    L. Active and passive voice


    1 Identify active and passive voice
    2 Rewrite the sentence in active voice

    M. Editing and revising


    1 Use the correct frequently confused word
    2 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused
    words
    3 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused
    pronouns and contractions
    4 Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
    5 Correct errors with signs
    6 Correct errors in everyday use
    7 Suggest appropriate revisions

    N. Citations
    1 Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 7th
    edition)
    2 Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 7th edition)
    3 Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th
    edition)
    4 Use in-text citations (MLA 7th–8th editions)
    5 Identify plagiarism

    Vocabulary
    O. Prefixes and suffixes
    1 Word pattern analogies
    2 Word pattern sentences
    3 Words with pre-
    4 Words with re-
    5 Words with sub-
    6 Words with mis-
    7 Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-
    8 Words with -ful
    9 Words with -less
    10 Words with -able and -ible

    P. Greek and Latin roots


    1 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
    2 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings
    of words
    3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and
    Latin roots
    4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
    5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and
    Latin roots

    Q. Homophones
    1 Use the correct homophone
    2 Identify and correct errors with homophones

    R. Foreign words and expressions


    1 Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
    2 Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign
    expressions
    3 Use the correct foreign expression

    S. Word usage and nuance


    1 Choose the word whose connotation and denotation
    best match the sentence
    2 Use words accurately and precisely
    3 Replace words using a thesaurus
    4 Explore words with new or contested usages

    T. Analogies
    1 Analogies
    2 Analogies: challenge

    U. Context clues
    1 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in
    context (100)
    2 Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in
    context (100)
    3 Use context to identify the meaning of a word (100)

    V. Reference skills
    1 Use dictionary entries
    2 Use dictionary definitions
    3 Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
    4 Use thesaurus entries

    Grammar and mechanics


    W. Sentences, fragments, and run-ons
    1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative,
    imperative, or exclamatory?
    2 Identify sentence fragments
    3 Identify run-on sentences
    4 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons

    X. Phrases and clauses


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

    Y. Nouns
    1 Form and use plurals: review
    2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns

    Z. Pronouns
    1 Identify and correct errors with subject and object
    pronouns
    2 Subject and object pronouns review
    3 Pronouns after "than" and "as"
    4 Identify and correct pronoun errors with "who"
    5 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
    6 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which,
    and that
    7 Identify vague pronoun references
    8 Identify all of the possible antecedents
    9 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and
    person

    AA. Verb types


    1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
    2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and
    predicate nouns
    3 Identify participles and what they modify
    4 Identify gerunds and their functions
    5 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases

    BB. Subject-verb agreement


    1 Identify and correct errors with subject-verb
    agreement
    2 Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-
    verb agreement
    3 Identify and correct verb agreement with compound
    subjects

    CC. Verb tense


    1 Form the progressive verb tenses
    2 Form the perfect verb tenses
    3 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

    DD. Adjectives and adverbs


    1 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
    2 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
    3 Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst
    4 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
    5 Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst

    EE. Conjunctions
    1 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

    FF. Misplaced modifiers


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

    GG. Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements


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

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

    II. Semicolons, colons, and commas


    1 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
    2 Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists
    3 Semicolons, colons, and commas review

    JJ. Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses


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

    KK. Apostrophes
    1 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive
    nouns
    2 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint
    possession

    LL. Capitalization
    1 Correct capitalization errors

    MM. Formatting
    1 Formatting quotations and dialogue
    2 Capitalizing titles
    3 Formatting titles
    4 Formatting and capitalizing titles: review

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