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Year 5 · English

Use Hyphens To Clarify

Year 5 learners practise using hyphens to avoid ambiguity.

The activities include Understand When to use Hyphens. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Understand When to use Hyphens

Checked learning resources

  • Using Hyphens to Join Prefixes to Root Words

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Exact Oak lesson video teaches when a hyphen joins a prefix to a root word, including adjacent vowels in de-ice and re-enter, ex-, self- and avoiding ambiguity.

  • Year 6 Using Hyphens Warm-Up PowerPoint

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Upper-KS2 teaching and questions cover hyphens with prefixes, compound words and ambiguity.

  • Hyphens Matching SPaG Activity

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Interactive browser activity practises matching correctly hyphenated words and recognising when hyphens clarify meaning.

  • Punctuation

    BBC Bitesize · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 5 English resource matched to using hyphens to avoid ambiguity.