Middle School Dashes, Hyphens, and Ellipses Resources

Learners will practice placing either one or two dashes, as directed, in given sentences to indicate a pause or break as appropriate.

Commas and dashes are both used to indicate pauses or breaks, but what’s the difference? Help your learners find out with this engaging one-page worksheet!

Use this worksheet to help middle-school writers correctly use ellipses to indicate a pause in narrative dialogue.

Use this eighth-grade grammar and punctuation worksheet to give students practice determining if ellipses are used correctly in quotations pulled from nonfictions texts.

In this eighth-grade grammar and mechanics worksheet, students will learn how to use an ellipsis to indicate an omission when quoting from a text!