Animal report template, by grade
Pick an animal and a grade. You get one page to print: the animal’s length, weight, speed and lifespan with their sources, a short passage to read at that grade’s level, “where my facts came from” already written, and lines for your child’s own words. Free, with nothing to sign up for.
What changes by grade
- Grades 1–2: the shortest passage, three questions with one or two lines each, and a big box to draw the animal in its home.
- Grades 3–4: a longer passage and five questions: habitat, food, how its body helps it, a favorite fact, and a question still to answer.
- Grades 5–6: the fullest passage and six questions, including adaptations, whether it is in danger, a comparison, and a bibliography.
Pick an animal
🌾 Savanna and grassland
🌴 Rainforest
🌊 Ocean
- 🐋 Blue whale
- 🦈 Great white shark
- 🐙 Giant Pacific octopus
- 🐬 Bottlenose dolphin
- 🐳 Orca
- 🐋 Humpback whale
- 🦦 Sea otter
- 🐢 Green sea turtle
- 🐢 Leatherback sea turtle
- 🦈 Whale shark
- 🐟 Sailfish
- 🐟 Atlantic bluefin tuna
- 🐠 Clownfish
- 🐟 Giant manta ray
- 🐟 Sockeye salmon
- 🐡 Ocean sunfish
- 🐟 Lined seahorse
- 🪼 Moon jellyfish
- 🦞 American lobster
- 🐋 Sperm whale
- 🦭 California sea lion
- 🦭 Harbor seal
- 🐢 Loggerhead sea turtle
- 🦀 Blue crab
🏜️ Desert
❄️ Snow and ice
🌲 Forest
🐸 Rivers, lakes and ponds
- 🦅 Bald eagle
- 🐊 Saltwater crocodile
- 🐹 Capybara
- 🦫 North American beaver
- 🐋 West Indian manatee
- 🦩 American flamingo
- 🦆 Mallard
- 🐊 American alligator
- 🐍 Green anaconda
- 🐸 American bullfrog
- 🐸 Axolotl
- 🐸 Hellbender
- 🐸 Goliath frog
- 🐟 Red-bellied piranha
- 🦋 Common green darner
- 🐸 Japanese giant salamander
- 🦦 North American river otter
🏡 Backyard and town
A class set: every animal of a habitat
One page per animal, so each child in a group gets a different one. Print a set at one grade:
| Habitat | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–4 | Grades 5–6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌾 Savanna and grassland (13) | Print the set | Print the set | Print the set |
| 🌴 Rainforest (14) | Print the set | Print the set | Print the set |
| 🌊 Ocean (31) | Print the set | Print the set | Print the set |
| 🏜️ Desert (9) | Print the set | Print the set | Print the set |
| ❄️ Snow and ice (11) | Print the set | Print the set | Print the set |
| 🌲 Forest (22) | Print the set | Print the set | Print the set |
| 🐸 Rivers, lakes and ponds (21) | Print the set | Print the set | Print the set |
| 🏡 Backyard and town (18) | Print the set | Print the set | Print the set |
How to use it
- Read the animal’s page together first; its 🔊 reads it aloud at the same three levels.
- The passage on the sheet is Peabody’s own writing, so a child can quote it and say where it came from.
- Older children can open each source on the list and find the number on it: the start of a real bibliography.
- Pair it with the fact cards and the guide Writing an animal report.