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Animals A to Z Activity: Diamondback Rattlesnake

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 diamondback rattlesnake can grow to be 7 feet long
  • A female rattlesnake gives birth to 10 to 20 babys at a time.
  • This snake can spit poison through too fangs in its jaw. When the diamondback is not using its fangs, the fangs folds back into its mouth.
  • A rattle snake usually coils its body be fore it attacks.
  • The diamondback has a rattle on the end of it tale. The rattle sound is a warning that the snak might attack

Answer Key

  • The diamondback rattlesnake can grow to be 7 feet long.
  • A female rattlesnake gives birth to 10 to 20 babies at a time.
  • This snake can spit poison through two fangs in its jaw. When the diamondback is not using its fangs, the fangs fold back into its mouth.
  • A rattlesnake usually coils its body before it attacks.
  • The diamondback has a rattle on the end of its tail. The rattle sound is a warning that the snake might attack.

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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!