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Animals A to Z Activity: Koala

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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  • When a baby koala is born, it is about the siz of a bee. The baby grows in its mother's pouch until it is about 5 month old.
  • Sometimes koalas are call koala bears. Their bodys might be shaped like a bear's body and they have no tails, but koalas are not related to bears.
  • Did you know that koalas sleep as much as 18 hours a day.
  • The word koala comes from a word that means "no drink." Koala dont drink much water they get water they need from the leaves they eats.

Answer Key

  • When a baby koala is born, it is about the size of a bee. The baby grows in its mother's pouch until it is about 5 months old.
  • Sometimes koalas are called koala bears. Their bodies might be shaped like a bear's body and they have no tails, but koalas are not related to bears.
  • Did you know that koalas sleep as much as 18 hours a day ?
  • The word koala comes from a word that means "no drink." Koalas don't drink much water. They get the water they need from the leaves they eat.

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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!