edHelper.com Animal Themes Birds Polar Regions

Yellow-Eyed Penguins

---

Yellow-Eyed Penguins
Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 4 to 7
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	8.42

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		cat-like, ear-piercing, hoiho, sizable, striking, among, incubation, responsibility, species, distinctive, headband, rarest, yellow-eyed, aboriginal, grayish, hatching
	content words:		New Zealand

---

Print Yellow-Eyed Penguins

Print Yellow-Eyed Penguins  (font options, pick words for additional puzzles, and more)

Quickly Print - PDF format

	Quickly Print: PDF (2 columns per page)
	Quickly Print: PDF (full page)

Quickly Print - HTML format

Quickly Print: HTML

Proofreading Activity

Print a proofreading activity

---

Feedback on Yellow-Eyed Penguins

Leave your feedback on Yellow-Eyed Penguins  (use this link if you found an error in the story)

---

Yellow-Eyed Penguins

---

¹     Among all 17 species of penguins, the yellow-eyed penguin is the oddest one! It lives in the southern part of New Zealand. It is the only type of penguin that likes to live alone. It is also the rarest type of penguin. There are only about 4,000 yellow-eyed penguins left in the world.
 
²     This bird appears to wear a grayish blue feather jacket with a white shirt covering its chest and belly. The yellow-eyed penguin has cat-like yellow irises and a striking yellow headband. The Maori, the aboriginal people of New Zealand, named this bird for its voice. They called it "hoiho," which means “noise shouter.” The yellow-eyed penguin gives out high-pitched, ear-piercing calls when it is claiming territory, courting, greeting other penguins, or feeling threatened. Sometimes, we hear its calls before we see a yellow-eyed penguin.

Paragraphs 3 to 4:
For the complete story with questions: click here for printable

---

Weekly Reading Books

Create Weekly Reading Books Prepare for an entire week at once!

---

Animal Themes

Animal Themes

---

Birds

Birds

---

Polar Regions

Polar Regions

---

More Lessons

Penguins

---

Animals

Amphibians         Birds         Deserts         Fish         Freshwater         Grasslands         Insects

Invertebrates         Mammals         Oceans         Polar Regions         Rain Forest         Reptiles

---

More Activities, Lesson Plans, and Worksheets

Back to School Graphic Organizers Alphabet Worksheets Sight Words Math Worksheets Mazes 50 States Education Teaching Monthly Themes January February March April May June July August September October November December

Fractions Place Value Time and Calendar Money Earth Day Solar System Analogies Nouns Following Directions Listening Capitalization Cursive Writing Patterns and Sequencing Dinosaurs All About Me Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Sixth Grade

Multiplication Division Main Idea Cause and Effect Measurement Decimals Rounding Order of Operations Verbs Community Helpers Adjectives Plants Grammar Addition and Subtraction Contractions Bulletin Board Ideas Word Searches Crossword Puzzles Printable Puzzles Reading Comprehension Reading Skills English Language Arts

Copyright © 2013 edHelper