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Animals A to Z Activity: Cheetah

Students learn interesting facts about animals as they reinforce basic skills of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

If you would like to share a photo of this animal with your students, we suggest you search the Google Image Library; it is an excellent source of animal photos. And EnchantedLearning.com offers coloring pages related to all of our Animals A to Z animals.

Activity Key

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  • The cheetah is the world's fastist land animal. It can reach speed of 70 miles and hour in just 3 seconds
  • You can tell a cheetah from a leopard by looking at its face cheetahs has black lines that run from their eyes to their mouths.
  • Cheetahs feed on animals such as deer rabbits, birds and lizards.
  • Sometimes they eat fruit too. They likes watermelon.
  • In the wild, most cheetahs live only 10 to 15 year.

Answer Key

  • The cheetah is the world's fastest land animal. It can reach speeds of [ALTERNATE: a speed of] 70 miles an hour in just 3 seconds.
  • You can tell a cheetah from a leopard by looking at its face. Cheetahs have black lines that run from their eyes to their mouths.
  • Cheetahs feed on animals such as deer, rabbits, birds and lizards.
  • Sometimes they eat fruit too. They like watermelon.
  • In the wild, most cheetahs live only 10 to 15 years .

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About Animals A to Z

Education World's Animals A to Z printable activity pages are designed for weekly use with students in grade 2-4. Students learn interesting facts about animals they know (and some animals they don't know) as they reinforce basic skills of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

These work sheets are also excellent test-preparation tools. The skills emphasized in the series are those found on all standardized tests in grades 2 and 3: simple word usage, end-of-sentence punctuation, comma placement in a series, basic spelling, and others. The skills do not include the appropriate use of apostrophes (except in contractions) and more advanced skills. If you want editing activities that include those skills, be sure to see our daily Every-Day Edit series.

For more information about this series, or for ideas for using it, be sure to see the Ideas for Using Animals A to Z page.

Note: At first, these activities might be challenging for your students. That's not a bad thing! Encourage them to keep at it. Go over the activities as a class. If students stick to it, they will get better at finding all ten errors on each work sheet. They'll be developing the skills that they will encounter on standardized tests too!