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!
Click for a PDF (portable document format) printable version
of this Animals A to Z editing activity.
Scroll down or click for work sheet text and answer key.
For more information about this series, or for ideas for using it in the classroom, be sure to see Ideas for Using Animals A to Z.
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
Uncorrected Text
The 50-pound giant octopus is the largist member of the octopuss family.
A female octopus lay 50,000 or more eggs at a time. She does not eat while she cares for her egg, so she usually dies soon after they hatch.
An octopus has eight arms. If it lose an arm, a knew one grows.
An octopus have very good eyesight, but it cannot here.
Did you know that some octopuses leave the water to hunt for food. They dont stay on land for very long.
Answer Key
The 50-pound giant octopus is the largest member of the octopus family.
A female octopus lays 50,000 or more eggs at a time. She does not eat while she cares for her eggs, so she usually dies soon after they hatch.
An octopus has eight arms. If it loses an arm, a new one grows.
An octopus has very good eyesight, but it cannot hear.
Did you know that some octopuses leave the water to hunt for food? They don't stay on land for very long.
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