Reception English
Here is a list of English skills students learn in reception! These skills are organised 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!
Text features
Alphabet
- B.1 Find letters in the alphabet
- B.2 Choose the letter that you hear: lowercase
- B.3 Choose the letter that you hear: uppercase
- B.4 Identify frequently confused letters
- B.5 Choose the lowercase letter that matches
- B.6 Find the lowercase letters
- B.7 Choose the uppercase letter that matches
- B.8 Find the uppercase letters
- B.9 Put the letters in ABC order
Consonants and vowels
Syllables
Rhyming
Blending and segmenting
Consonant sounds and letters
Consonant blends and digraphs
- H.1 Which consonant blend does the word start with?
- H.2 Complete the word with the right initial consonant blend
- H.3 Does the word start with a consonant blend?
- H.4 Which consonant blend does the word end with?
- H.5 Complete the word with the right final consonant blend
- H.6 Does the word end with a consonant blend?
- H.7 Choose the word that matches the picture: -ss, -ll, -ff, -zz, -ck
- H.8 Choose the correct digraph
Short vowels
- I.1 Find the short a word
- I.2 Choose the short a word that matches the picture
- I.3 Complete the short a word
- I.4 Choose the short a sentence that matches the picture
- I.5 Find the short e word
- I.6 Choose the picture that matches the short e word
- I.7 Complete the short e word
- I.8 Choose the short e sentence that matches the picture
- I.9 Find the short i word
- I.10 Choose the short i word that matches the picture
- I.11 Complete the short i words
- I.12 Choose the short i sentence that matches the picture
- I.13 Find the short o word
- I.14 Choose the short o word that matches the picture
- I.15 Complete the short o word
- I.16 Choose the short o sentence that matches the picture
- I.17 Find the short u word
- I.18 Choose the picture that matches the short u word
- I.19 Complete the short u word
- I.20 Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture
- I.21 Identify the short vowel sound in a word
- I.22 Complete the word with the right short vowel
- I.23 Spell the short vowel word
- I.24 Complete the sentence with the correct short vowel word
- I.25 Read questions with short vowel words
Long vowels
Sight words
Sentences
Parts of speech
- M.1 Is the noun a person, animal, place or thing?
- M.2 Choose the singular or plural noun that matches the picture
- M.3 Find the picture that matches the action verb
- M.4 Find the action verb
- M.5 Complete the sentence with an action verb to match the picture
- M.6 Compare pictures using adjectives
- M.7 Use number words: one to ten
- M.8 Use colour words
- M.9 Inside and outside, above and below, next to and beside
- M.10 Choose the best location word to match the picture