I came upon several different live post about unique or unusual animals and it inspired me to put together these worksheets. When I was working in my middle school in South Korea my students absolutely adored anything to do with the animal world and often surprised me with what they know. I would like to think that these worksheets might further inspire them to read and help to improve their reading comprehension.

As an aid to teachers, each of these is presented with a reading process lesson plan. I find that students often need help working through the reading  process to build reading skills. This is especially true of EFL/ESL learners who may be focused on very surface level reading skills designed to help take tests. While test taking skills are important, reading that focuses on scanning for an answer leaves the learner with very limited ability to engage and comprehend the text. By teaching through the reading process the goal is to help learners move from skimming, to scanning, through to deeper meaning. To help with this, learners are presented with organizers in a chart form rather than reading comprehension questions.

I hope these are enjoyable for both teachers and students.

• Unsual Animals Reading Comprehension: The Babirusa
  What do you know about the unusual Babirusa? #science #esl #reading
• Unsual Animals Reading Comprehension: The Babirusa
  What do you know about the unusual Babirusa? #science #esl #reading
• Unusual Animals Reading Comprehension: The Dhole
  Improve deep reading skills while learning about unusual animals and practicing with #science texts
• Unusual Animals Reading Comprehension: The Dhole
  Improve deep reading skills while learning about unusual animals and practicing with #science texts
• Unusual Animals: Giant Coconut Crab
  A crab that climbs trees?! #read more #science with your students.
• Unusual Animals: Girded Lizard Reading Comprehension
  The girded lizard has a powerful bite! Learn more in this #authenticreading activity #literacy #ell #esl #efl
• Unusual Animals: Maned Wolf Reading Comprehension
  A fierce unusual animal with a beautiful mane. It’s not a lion, what is it? #reading #literacy #nonfiction
• Unusual Animals: Spiney Orbweaver Reading Comprehension
  Science readings don’t have to be boring. Learn about the Spiney Orbweaver with your #students
• Unusual Animals: The Fossa Reading Comprehension
  The Fossa is one of the wild cats. Do you know this unusual kitty? #science #authenticreading
• Unusual Animals: The Gerenuk Reading Comprehension
  #science reading can be challenging. Reading about unusual animals makes it #fun
• Unusual Animals: The Irrawaddy Reading Comprehension
  #ocean animals fascinate me and I love helping my students read about them. Find out more about the Irrawaddy.
• Unusual Animals: The Markhor Reading Comprehension
  Do you know this unusual animal the Markhor? #read all about it in this fun #authentic reading
• Unusual Animals: The Mata Mata Reading Comprehension
  What do you know about the mata mata turtle? #authentictext #reading
• Unusual Animals: The Pink Fairy Reading Comprehension
  This “fairy’ is not what you expect! #animals #scienceliteracy
• Unusual Animals: The Sunda Lemur Reading Comprehension
  Learn a little about the Sunda lemur with your #englishlanguagelearners #reading #authentic
• Unusual Animals: The Tree Hopper Reading Comprehension
  Who is hopping around these trees? #read #STEM #science #nonfiction
• Unusual Animals: The Yeti Crab Reading Comprehension
  The Yeti crab is an #unusualanimal that makes for interesting #reading