Here is a list of English skills students learn in class V! 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. Nexustutor will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
A.1 Use key details to determine the main idea
A.2 Determine the main idea of a passage
A.3 Combine main ideas from two texts
B.1 Determine the themes of short stories
C.1 Identify the purpose of a text
C.2 Which sentence is more formal?
D.1 Determine the order of events in informational texts
D.2 Compare and contrast in informational texts
D.3 Match causes and effects in informational texts
D.4 Match problems with their solutions
D.5 Identify text structures
E.1 Sort sensory details
F.1 Identify similes and metaphors
F.2 Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
F.3 Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
G.1 Compare and contrast points of view
H.1 Use actions and dialogue to understand characters
H.2 Compare and contrast characters
H.3 Draw inferences from a text
I.1 Identify story elements
J.1 Compare mythological illustrations
K.1 Read fantasy with illustrations
K.2 Read realistic fiction with illustrations
K.3 Read historical fiction with illustrations
L.1 Read realistic fiction
L.2 Read historical fiction
L.3 Read poetry
L.4 Read drama
M.1 Read about animals
M.2 Read about art, music and traditions
M.3 Read about famous places
M.4 Read about sports and hobbies
N.1 Read about famous people
N.2 Read about business and technology
N.3 Read about science and nature
N.4 Read about history
O.1 Put the sentences in order
O.2 Use coordinating conjunctions
O.3 Choose the best transition
O.4 Order items from most general to most specific
O.5 Organise information by main idea
O.6 Remove the sentence that does not belong
P.1 Choose the best topic sentence
P.2 Choose the best concluding sentence
Q.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
Q.2 Identify an author’s statement of opinion
Q.3 Choose reasons to support an opinion
Q.4 Identify supporting details in literary texts
Q.5 Identify supporting details in informational texts
R.1 Show character emotions and traits
R.2 Revise the sentence using a stronger verb
S.1 Use the correct frequently confused word
S.2 Correct errors with frequently confused words
T.1 Identify and correct plagiarism
U.1 Words with pre-
U.2 Words with re-
U.3 Words with sub-
U.4 Words with mis-
U.5 Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
U.6 Words with -ful
U.7 Words with -less
U.8 Words with -able and -ible
V.1 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
V.2 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
V.3 Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
V.4 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
V.5 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
V.6 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
V.7 Match words with Greek and Latin roots to their meanings
W.1 Select the members of a group
W.2 Select the words that don’t belong
X.1 Choose the synonym
X.2 Find synonyms in context
X.3 Choose the antonym
X.4 Find antonyms in context
Y.1 Analogies
Z.1 Use the correct homophone
AA.1 Which definition matches the sentence?
AA.2 Which sentence matches the definition?
BB.1 Describe the difference between related words
BB.2 Positive and negative connotation
CC.1 Find words using context
CC.2 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
CC.3 Use context to identify the meaning of a word
CC.4 Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
DD.1 Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
DD.2 Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
DD.3 Order alphabetically: challenge
DD.4 Use guide words
DD.5 Use dictionary entries
DD.6 Use dictionary definitions
DD.7 Use thesaurus entries
EE.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
EE.2 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
EE.3 Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
EE.4 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
EE.5 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
EE.6 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
EE.7 Identify dependent and independent clauses
EE.8 Is the sentence simple or compound?
EE.9 Is the sentence simple, compound or complex?
EE.10 Order the words to create a sentence
FF.1 Identify nouns – with abstract nouns
FF.2 Identify common and proper nouns
FF.3 Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
FF.4 Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y
FF.5 Form plurals: review
FF.6 Form and use plurals: review
FF.7 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
FF.8 Form the singular or plural possessive
FF.9 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
GG.1 Identify personal pronouns
GG.2 Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
GG.3 Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
GG.4 Compound subjects and objects with ‘I’ and ‘me’
GG.5 Compound subjects and objects with personal pronouns
GG.6 Use possessive pronouns
GG.7 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
GG.8 Use reflexive pronouns
GG.9 Identify relative pronouns
GG.10 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
GG.11 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
HH.1 Identify main verbs and helping verbs
HH.2 What does the modal verb show?
HH.3 Use the correct modal verb
II.1 Use the correct subject or verb
II.2 Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects
JJ.1 Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?
JJ.2 Form and use the regular past tense
JJ.3 Form and use the irregular past tense
JJ.4 Form and use the simple past, present and future tense
JJ.5 Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
JJ.6 Use the progressive verb tenses
JJ.7 Form the progressive verb tenses
JJ.8 Choose between the past tense and past participle
JJ.9 Use the perfect verb tenses
JJ.10 Form the perfect verb tenses
KK.1 Identify adjectives
KK.2 Order adjectives
KK.3 Identify adverbs
KK.4 Use relative adverbs
KK.5 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
KK.6 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
KK.7 Use adjectives to compare
KK.8 Spell adjectives that compare
KK.9 Use adjectives with more and most
KK.10 Use adverbs to compare
LL.1 Identify prepositions
LL.2 Identify prepositions and their objects
LL.3 Identify prepositional phrases
LL.4 Prepositions: review
MM.1 Identify coordinating conjunctions
MM.2 Identify subordinating conjunctions
MM.3 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
MM.4 Fill in the missing correlative conjunction
NN.1 Pronoun-verb contractions
NN.2 Contractions with ‘not’
OO.1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words and interjections
OO.2 Commas with compound and complex sentences
PP.1 Correct capitalisation errors
PP.2 Capitalising titles
QQ.1 Formatting titles
QQ.2 Formatting and capitalising titles