At IXL, we strive to keep our personalized learning platform in line and up to date with students’ evolving needs. That’s why we compile a list of our top new features to help you—as a learner, educator, or parent—get the most out of IXL.
Keep reading below for a roundup of releases from the past month, including skill plans for Rosetta Stone Foundations, video tutorials for 5th grade math, audio support for social studies skills, new ELA skills, and more!
New features
New math skill plans
We’ve added the following textbook skill plans:
- Saxon Math Kindergarten
- Dimensions Math Grade 1
- Carnegie Learning Courses 1 and 2 (Grades 6 and 7)
- Pearson Math Virginia Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2
- Math Makes Sense (Canada) Grade 9
We’ve also made extensive revisions to the Big Ideas Math Grade 2 skill plan.
New ELA skill plans
We added the following new textbook skill plans:
- Reach for Reading Grade 2
- Wit & Wisdom Grades 6 and 7
- Spectrum Phonics (Canada) Grade 3
- Spectrum Spelling and Word Study (Canada) Grade 3
We also updated the Reading Street Grade 2 skill plan to showcase some of our newest skills.
New ELA skills
We’ve added over 20 new skills for sight words covering Pre-K through first grade! Sight word skills help students quickly recognize high frequency words, which improves their reading fluency. They’re a major focus in early elementary education. These skills give students repeated practice identifying limited sets of 5-8 words, and some challenge students to identify these words in a more complex sentence context. You can find all of these skills organized in the sight words topic.
Rosetta Stone Foundations skill plan
Rosetta Stone is now part of the IXL family! As part of a collaboration between IXL and Rosetta Stone, we have added a new skill plan for Rosetta Stone’s Foundations program for Grades 6+, which is used to support English Language Learners in K-12! This skill plan provides hand-picked IXL ELA skills that complement and enhance what students are learning in each unit of the Rosetta Stone program. Stay tuned for a similar skill plan for Grades 3–5 soon. In the meantime, check out the new skill plan.
Updated features
IXL video tutorials now available for grade 5
We’ve released over 260 video tutorials for grade 5 math! This initial release includes more than half of the skills in grade 5, including most of the Common Core-aligned skills and many skill-plan-only skills. The remaining skills will have videos added in the coming weeks. See one of the new videos here.
We’ve also released 32 new math videos to expand our video tutorial coverage in Algebra I. These cover topics such as solving equations using the order of operations and converting an explicit formula to a recursive formula.
Social studies audio support for grades 2-5
We’ve added audio to questions and explanations for social studies skills in grades 2-5! This audio support allows our elementary school users to complete social studies skills independently and to get the in-the-moment support they need. As with other subjects, grade 2 has audio enabled automatically and grades 3-5 can be enabled optionally.
Lessons for in-skill recommendations
More Lessons have been added to in-skill recommendations for many math skills in grades 3 and up! Lessons are mini study guides that students can use to brush up on key math topics. These Lesson recommendations appear alongside the regular in-skill recommendations, giving students an additional in-the-moment instructional resource. Check out a skill with Lesson recommendations here!
More math skills with Spanish support
We’ve expanded our Spanish-language support to over a dozen new math skills in middle school and high school. These newly supported skills include Checkpoints about equivalent expressions, transformations, unit conversions, and financial literacy.