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Animals A to Z Activity: Shark

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 world is home to more then 450 kind of sharks.
  • Most fish have two gills, but sharks has as many as seven gill.
  • Sharks have live on earth for more than 400 million year.
  • A great white shark can have as many is 300 teeth in its mouth.
  • A shark have a good sense of smell. It can smell a small drop of blood in a very large swimming pool.
  • Elephants and bee kill more people each year than sharks do.

Answer Key

  • The world is home to more than 450 kinds of sharks.
  • Most fish have two gills, but sharks have as many as seven gills.
  • Sharks have lived on Earth for more than 400 million years.
  • A great white shark can have as many as 300 teeth in its mouth.
  • A shark has a good sense of smell. It can smell a small drop of blood in a very large swimming pool.
  • Elephants and bees kill more people each year than sharks do.

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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!