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Animals A to Z Activity: Alligator

Help students to identify grammar mistakes using these fascinating facts about alligators.

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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  • An alligator builds a nest of soil and lays more than 30 egg. Only 15 eggs will hatch, and only 6 alligator babies will live to bee a year old.
  • The raccoon are one animal that eats alligator eggs and alligator babys.
  • Young alligators eat insects and small fish Older alligators eat snakes turtles, birds and other small animals.
  • Female alligators are less then 9 feet long. Males usually gro longer.
  • The largest alligator ever found in florida was 14 feet long

Answer Key

  • An alligator builds a nest of soil and lays more than 30 eggs. Only 15 eggs will hatch, and only 6 alligator babies will live to be a year old.
  • The raccoon is one animal that eats alligator eggs and alligator babies.
  • Young alligators eat insects and small fish. Older alligators eat snakes, turtles, birds and other small animals.
  • Female alligators are less than 9 feet long. Males usually grow longer.
  • The largest alligator ever found in Florida was 14 feet long.

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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!