{"id":4742,"date":"2026-05-27T06:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/animal-matching-worksheet-young-learners\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:22:23","slug":"animal-matching-worksheet-young-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/he\/animal-matching-worksheet-young-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Match-Up Worksheet \u2014 Free Printable PDF for Young Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This free printable <strong>Animal Match-Up Worksheet<\/strong> is perfect for Young Learner ESL classes (ages 5\u201310). Students draw lines connecting animal names to the correct animal pictures.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio aligncenter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n7rdLIyi7jk<\/div><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The worksheet includes <strong>25 animals<\/strong>: monkey, bear, orangutan, tiger, koala, deer, elephant, camel, kangaroo, squirrel, polar bear, anteater, zebra, rhinoceros, fox, moose, ostrich, lion, sloth, porcupine, hippo, hedgehog, crocodile, panda, and skunk.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What&#8217;s included (3 pages):<\/strong><\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n  <li>Page 1 \u2014 Animals 1\u201312 (name &#x2194; picture matching)<\/li>\n  <li>Page 2 \u2014 Animals 13\u201325 (name &#x2194; picture matching)<\/li>\n  <li>Page 3 \u2014 Answer Key (teacher copy)<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each animal name is shuffled separately from the pictures so students must look carefully at each photo. All photos show clear, full-body animal images sourced from Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Download the free PDF below:<\/strong><\/p><div style=\"text-align:center;margin:1.5em 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/animal-matching-worksheet-9.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download>Download Animal Match-Up Worksheet (PDF)<\/a><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How to use this worksheet:<\/strong><\/p><ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n  <li>Print both student pages (pages 1 and 2) for each student.<\/li>\n  <li>Students draw a line from each animal name to its matching picture.<\/li>\n  <li>Keep page 3 (Answer Key) for yourself.<\/li>\n  <li>For extra practice, have students say the animal names aloud before drawing lines.<\/li>\n<\/ol><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Images: All animal photos are sourced from <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> under Creative Commons licenses. \u00a9 TahricTeaches.com | 18KEnglish.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free printable animal matching worksheet for Young Learner ESL classes. 25 animals, 3 pages including answer key. Students match animal names to pictures.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4786,"href":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/4786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahricteaches.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}