Let students’ creativity shine while they learn with IXL Color-by-Skill! Like paint-by-numbers, these coloring sheets are customized with IXL skill IDs, then printed out to turn skill practice into an artistic endeavor, making learning even more fun. IXL Color-by-Skill is available on the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia editions of IXL!
Each customizable coloring sheet can liven up your students’ daily lessons, IEP plans, homework assignments, and more! When students reach their goal in one of the skills on their sheet, they’ll color another piece of the picture.
With a variety of delightful design themes, there’s an IXL Color-by-Skill page that’s perfect for every learner, from outer space scenes to dessert extravaganzas! Students of all ages will be thrilled to see their learning progress in vivid color while they work toward completing the whole picture. Get ready to customize, color, complete, and start a new sheet!
Table of contents:
- Get started with IXL Color-by-Skill
- Pick skills that match your plans
- Maintain motivation on vacation (and holidays!)
- Illustrate their improvement
- Build in coloring brain breaks
Get started with IXL Color-by-Skill
Head over to the Printable Resources pages for teachers and families to browse the full collection of IXL Color-by-Skill worksheets. Each sheet comes with editable spaces to type in three-character IXL skill IDs, and you can choose from a variety of imaginative illustrations.
Tip: Learn more about IXL skill IDs with this teacher video or in our help center!
Just download the worksheets you want, type in your skill IDs, and print out the pages for your students to start practicing!
Here are a few ideas for how you might use IXL Color-by-Skill with your learners:
Pick skills that match your plans
Create custom sheets that support your learning goals:
- Make a week-by-week sheet: Show students how far they’ve come with pages that track weekly progress for the quarter, trimester, or semester.
- Monitor homework assignments: Give yourself an easy way to track homework completion with IXL Color-by-Skill. Plus, your students will have a fun activity to visualize their progress!
- Support your daily lessons: Infuse your current unit with creativity by filling sheets with skills that match your daily lesson plans.
- Bring skill plans to life: Pull skills from IXL’s Weekly Boost, state standards, textbook, and other ready-made skill plans to make progress leap off the platform to the page!
Maintain motivation on vacation (and holidays!)
Keep learning going even when school lets out:
- Make it themed: Craft creative holiday handouts with themed coloring sheets for school breaks; try social studies skills for Thanksgiving or science skills for spring.
- Assign winter homework: Give your students a skill assignment with a creative twist to maintain momentum over the long winter break!
- Stop summer slide: Set your current students up for a summer of learning by handing out sheets to review key concepts over vacation.
- Prepare for next school year: Introduce yourself and your course to incoming students with an imaginative activity to get them ready for the new year.
Illustrate their improvement
Motivate students to make progress in the skills that will help them meet their learning goals and support academic growth:
- Work through challenges: Have learners fill their page with “Keep at it” skills from their Recommendations wall.
- Target trouble spots: Use the Trouble Spots report to create sheets for groups of students struggling with the same skills.
- Personalize assessment practice: Support student growth on assessments by pulling skills from students’ personalized action plans or IXL personalized study plans.
- Close learning gaps: Select skills that support your students’ IEP goals to enrich their intervention experience.
Build in coloring brain breaks
Give students a chance to recharge their mental batteries:
- Fun Fridays: Carve out time each week for learners to check their student dashboard, review which skills they’ve completed, and color in their latest achievements.
- Station rotation: Add IXL Color-by-Skill into a station rotation day to give students a pause between more challenging stations. You can also use them to track station progress!
Explore the full collection of IXL Color-by-Skill worksheets on the Printable Resources pages for teachers and families. And check out IXL’s other fun and engaging printable worksheets and activities!
IXL Color-by-Skill pages are also available for international IXL editions:
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