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Lesson 43: Hyphens and Slashes

What this lesson teaches

The hyphen (-) is a right pinky reach to the number row. The slash (/) is right pinky, bottom row.

Each run has 3 parts: a warm-up drill, real words and full sentences. You will type things like: twenty-one well-known ice-cream x-ray and/or yes/no

Pass with 90% accuracy to unlock Lesson 44: Parentheses ( ). Earn more stars by keeping accuracy high and building speed.

Tips for grown-ups

  • Remind your child to keep fingers on the home row between keys.
  • Accuracy first. Speed comes with repetition.
  • Replaying a lesson for 3 stars is great practice.
  • Track progress in the Parent Dashboard.

About the Symbol Station unit

Colons, hyphens, parentheses and the @ sign show up in school work, email addresses and math. Each lesson here teaches two or three symbols with the finger and Shift key to use, then puts them into real examples.

Sentences in this lesson

  • My big cousin is twenty-one.
  • Add 1/2 cup of milk.
  • Answer yes/no for each question.
  • A red-tailed hawk flew high.
  • Our nine-year-old neighbor has a pet snake.
  • Cut the cake into 1/4 slices.
  • We need a left-handed pair of scissors.
  • The x-ray showed a tiny bone.

Words in the warm-up: twenty-one, well-known, ice-cream, x-ray, and/or, yes/no, 1/2, 3/4, nine-year-old.