HYPHENS AND DASHES - PUNCTUATION: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS

These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Punctuation – Hyphens and Dashes. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these ready to use exercises that are well planned for student engagement.

After completing these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:

• Consider the functions of hyphens and dashes to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in a text.
• List the similarities and the differences of hyphens and dashes; en dashes and em dashes.
• Apply punctuation rules to identify the appropriate use of hyphens and dashes in a text.
• Use hyphens to join two or more words to create new meaning; to create compound words with prefixes and suffixes; to clarify meaning; to write fractions or numbers; and to indicate a missing element.
• Use dashes to introduce an explanation or clarification; to separate a non-essential information; to replace a pair of commas; and to replace a pair of brackets.
• Use hyphens and dashes to aid cohesion in writing; to convey specific meanings; and to add variety to writing.

This Download Includes:

• EXERCISE 1: Match the terms (1-5) with their meanings (A-E).
• EXERCISE 2: Consider the functions of hyphens and dashes to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in the text.
• EXERCISE 3: Watch the video – Hyphens and Dashes – to complete the following table with required details for hyphens and dashes.
• EXERCISE 4: Use Venn Diagram to compare and contrast hyphens and dashes to find their differences and the similarities.
• EXERCISE 5: Use Venn Diagram to compare and contrast em dash and en dash to find the differences and the similarities.
• EXERCISE 6: Select the correct option to identify the appropriate use of hyphens and dashes. Tick all the correct answers.
• EXERCISE 7: Use hyphens to join two or more words to create new meaning; and to create compound words with prefixes and suffixes.
• EXERCISE 8: Use hyphens to clarify meaning; to write fractions or numbers; and to indicate a missing element.
• EXERCISE 9: Use dashes to introduce an explanation or clarification; to replace semicolons; and to enclose extra information.
• EXERCISE 10: Use dashes to replace a pair of commas; to replace a pair of brackets; and to replace ellipsis.
• EXERCISE 11: Use hyphens and dashes to aid cohesion in writing; to convey specific meanings; and to add variety to writing.
• EXERCISE 12: Give an example each for the given dash rules.
• EXERCISE 13: Give 14 examples for hyphenated compound words. Give 8 examples for suspended compound words.
• EXERCISE 14: Identify the hyphen rules used in the following sentences.
• EXERCISE 15: Identify the hyphen rules used in the following prefixes and suffixes.
• EXERCISE 16: Supply dashes or hyphens wherever necessary. Replace other punctuation marks with either hyphens or dashes.
• EXERCISE 17: Frame compound words using hyphens with the following prefixes and suffixes.
• EXERCISE 18: Choose the sentences that contain a compound adjective, use hyphens to form those possible.

Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom:

• To challenge early finishers
• For effective tutoring
• As ESL stations and sub tubs
• As holiday work and homework
• For small group collaborations
• For an end of unit assessments 
• For reinforcement and enrichment

More Punctuation Resources by the same Author:

• PUNCTUATION
• CAPITAL LETTERS AND FULL STOPS
• APOSTROPHES AND BRACKETS
• COLONS AND SEMICOLONS
• COMMAS AND INVERTED COMMAS
• HYPHENS AND DASHES
• QUESTION MARKS AND EXCLAMATION MARKS
• BULLET POINTS AND ELLIPSES

This is what teachers/buyers say about these resources:

• ADVERBIAL PHRASES: 17 WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Kara Davis: This was very helpful as a teacher, to have different ideas than my original ones. Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)
• SENTENCE STRUCTURE: 30 WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Tracy Wu: It was a good review of sentence structures for the beginning of the year. Rating: 4/5 (very satisfied).
• COMPOUND WORDS: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Lisa VanRoekel: It kept my son engaged. Rating: 4/5 (very satisfied).
• ADVERBIAL PHRASES: 17 WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Patrick Howard: As we stepped into remote learning I was looking for ways for my students to interact with the parts of sentences at home. These worksheets really helped to solidify their working knowledge of adverbials and prepositional phrases, and the role they play in sentences. Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)
• PROOFREADING WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Milloni Shah: Great proofreading practice for my students. Rating: 4/5 (very satisfied)
• PARTS OF SPEECH WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Courtney Flournoy: A great way to teach the language standards. Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)
• IMAGERY WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Stefani Karlsson: My students loved this resource and the activities included with it. They were engaged, learning and having fun! Thanks for your hard work. It is greatly appreciated. Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)
• IRONY WORKSHEETS AND TASK CARDS - Gay La Carmichael: I was using this with my students just before we went to distance learning. This was helping my students to understand this difficult concept. Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)

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