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Animals A to Z Activity: Penguin

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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  • Penguins are birds Unlike other birds, a penguin can swim under the water at speeds of 25 mile an hour.
  • There is 17 kinds of penguins. Four kinds live only on antarctica.
  • Penguins live in large groups call rookeries. A rookery can have thousands of penguin in it.
  • A mother and father penguin take turns takeing care of there baby.
  • A penguin's biggest enemys are seals killer whales and some sea birds.

Answer Key

  • Penguins are birds . Unlike other birds, a penguin can swim under the water at speeds of 25 miles an hour.
  • There are 17 kinds of penguins. Four kinds live only on Antarctica.
  • Penguins live in large groups called rookeries. A rookery can have thousands of penguins in it.
  • A mother and father penguin take turns taking care of their baby.
  • A penguin's biggest enemies are seals, killer whales and some sea birds

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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!