Language Arts Grade Six

Unit Ten, Lesson Four: Symbols


  1. follow
  2. hello
  3. allow
  4. settle
  5. battle
  6. butter
  7. snappy
  8. hopping
  9. supper
  10. altitude
  1. circle
  2. living
  3. blood
  4. treeline
  5. elevation
  6. level
  7. hemoglobin
  8. type
  9. negative
  10. positive
Symbols

Many of these symbols have limited use in everyday writing. Some of these symbols are used a lot in specialized languages such as computer programming languages. We won't deal with these specialized languages. It is still a good idea to atleast know the names of all the following symbols.


	$   dollar sign			@   at sign

	#   hash mark			%   percent sign

	&   and symbol			=   equal sign

	?   question mark		+   plus sign

	*   asterisk			>   greater than

	<   less than			^   carot

	~   tilde			!   exclamation mark

	-  dash				_  underscore

	/  slash			:  colon

Here are a few more symbols you should be familiar with:

	¢  cent sign			©  copyright symbols

	®  registered symbol		¶  paragraph sign

	™ trademark symbol		÷  division sign


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