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Animals A to Z Activity: Narwhal

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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  • Male narwhals have a front tooth, or tusk, that can gro to be 8 feet long.
  • The male narwhal can use it tusk to fight off other creature.
  • Narwhals live in cold see waters.
  • The narwhal is some times called the "white whale." It turns whiter as it get older.
  • Narwhals usually swim in groups of up to 25 when they is swiming to their winter homes, they might travel in groups of hundreds or thousands.

Answer Key

  • Male narwhals have a front tooth, or tusk, that can grow to be 8 feet long.
  • The male narwhal can use its tusk to fight off other creatures.
  • Narwhals live in cold sea waters.
  • The narwhal is sometimes called the "white whale." It turns whiter as it gets older.
  • Narwhals usually swim in groups of up to 25. When they are swimming to their winter homes, they might travel in groups of hundreds or thousands.

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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!