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Animals A to Z Activity: Yak

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 yak is a ox-like animal that lives in china.
  • It have a coat of long, thick hair that hang down to its feet.
  • Yaks usually live in herds of 10 to 100 animal. The herds is mostly females and young yaks. The male yak usually gos its own way.
  • A yak's horns might grow to be 3 feet long.
  • In some parts of asia, yaks are as common as cows are in the United States People get milk butter, meat and leather from the yaks.

Answer Key

  • The yak is an ox-like animal that lives in China.
  • It has a coat of long, thick hair that hangs down to its feet.
  • Yaks usually live in herds of 10 to 100 animals. The herds are mostly females and young yaks. The male yak usually goes its own way.
  • A yak's horns might grow to be 3 feet long.
  • In some parts of Asia, yaks are as common as cows are in the United States. People get milk, butter, meat and leather from the yaks.

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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!