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Animals A to Z Activity: Hyena

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 female hyena is usually bigger then the mail
  • Hyenas live in groups called clans. A clan mite have 80 hyenas in it.
  • Each clan live in an underground den. The hyenas in the clan protect there den form other clans.
  • A hyena eats all of its prey. It even eats its preys' hare and bones!
  • Hyenas look like dogs, but they is more closely related to cats.
  • A baby hyena is born with its eyes o pen and some of its teeth formed.

Answer Key

  • The female hyena is usually bigger than the male.
  • Hyenas live in groups called clans. A clan might have 80 hyenas in it.
  • Each clan lives in an underground den. The hyenas in the clan protect their den from other clans.
  • A hyena eats all of its prey. It even eats its preys' hair and bones!
  • Hyenas look like dogs, but they are more closely related to cats.
  • A baby hyena is born with its eyes open and some of its teeth formed.

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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!