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Animals A to Z Activity: Manatee

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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  • A manatee grow to be about 10 feet long and 1,000 pounds.
  • Manatees can live for 60 year or more
  • In the United States, most manatees are found in florida. In the summer they might be see as far north as Virginia.
  • A manatee can eat more then 50 pound of plants each day.
  • A manatee can stay un der the water for 20 minute.
  • A female manatee usually give birth to a calf once every 2 to 5 years.

Answer Key

  • A manatee grows to be about 10 feet long and 1,000 pounds.
  • Manatees can live for 60 years or more .
  • In the United States, most manatees are found in Florida. In the summer they might be seen as far north as Virginia.
  • A manatee can eat more than 50 pounds of plants each day.
  • A manatee can stay under the water for 20 minutes.
  • A female manatee usually gives birth to a calf once every 2 to 5 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!