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Year 6 · English

Use Hyphens To Clarify

Year 6 learners practise using hyphens and dashes in sentences.

The activities include Understand the Use of a Dash for Joining Sentences, Practise Using Hyphens, Bullet Points and Ellipses. The checked support below includes teaching, video, lesson, interactive. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Understand the Use of a Dash for Joining Sentences
  • Practise Using Hyphens, Bullet Points and Ellipses

Checked learning resources

  • Oak: Punctuation

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Oak Year 6/KS2 unit linked to using hyphens and dashes in sentences.

  • BBC Bitesize: Punctuation

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    BBC KS2 Punctuation support for using hyphens and dashes in sentences.

  • When Do I Use a Single Dash? | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Gives modelled KS2 examples of a single dash used to link or separate ideas and mark a boundary in a sentence. The video models a single dash used to link and separate ideas, matching the worksheet's informal clause-join

  • Oak: Colons Semi Colons Hyphens And Bullet Points Revision

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 6 english lesson. I can practise colons, semi-colons, hyphens and bullet points test questions. A colon has two functions - it can introduce a list or an explanation. A dash can also introduce an explanation. A semi

  • PlanIt Year 6 Semi-Colons, Colons and Dashes Lesson Pack

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Verified Year 6 lesson pack teaching colons, semi-colons and dashes between independent clauses, including colons where the second clause explains, illustrates or adds information to the first.

  • Year 6 Using Colons, Semi-Colons and Dashes to Mark Independent Clauses Warm-Up PowerPoint

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Verified Year 6 teaching and practice PowerPoint explaining how colons, semi-colons and dashes mark boundaries between independent main clauses, with modelled examples and pupil questions.

  • Hyphens And Ellipsis worksheet and quiz downloads

    Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

    Free worksheet, starter quiz and exit quiz downloads for the Oak lesson Hyphens And Ellipsis.

  • New Planit Y6 Spag Lesson Pack Hyphens

    Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 6 English resource matched to using hyphens and dashes in sentences.