Read Works
Read Works: Tamika's Trip to the Zoo
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Tamika who went to the zoo with her father to see the polar bears. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: Historic Maps in K 12 Classrooms
Great resource for teachers of geography and American history for all levels. You will find lesson plans based on the use of maps for all ages.
Other
Map Zone: Starting Mapping
Discover the basics of mapping by reading about what maps are, what they provide, how to fold them, and how to use them properly. Content focuses on Great Britain.
Read Works
Read Works: Learn About Maps
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, the basic terminology associated with map are explained in this informational text. A question sheet is available to help students...
Other
Map Zone: Compasses and Directions
Sharpen map skills by exploring these map pages. Learn about the compass rose, different norths, and how to use a compass.
Read Works
Read Works: A School Map
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction piece tells the story of a little girl who draws a map of the school for her little brother. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
Read Works
Read Works: The Difference Between Maps and Globes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares the difference between maps and globes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Read Works
Read Works: How to Draw a Map Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains how to draw a map. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Character Map [Pdf]
Teachers will learn about importance of character maps. Teachers will learn how to implement character maps; measure progress with character maps; and find research to support the use of character maps. Several reproducible character...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Estados Unidos
Easy-to-read Spanish map of the United States with country information below. A nice site with links to the States and the rest of the world's countries as well!
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Treasure Hunt
Get hands-on with students in building a map with a class. Take students outside to a sandbox and work with them to build a map of campus. Once the map is drawn you can turn their design into a treasure hunt to assess map interpretation.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Map Trap
Lesson to reinforce maps skills and concepts. Young scholars map locations around their school and use world maps to locate major landmarks.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Map Your Schoolyard
Lesson plan introduces the concept of maps while providing a forum to practice the skill of navigating using a map.
Code.org
Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Happy Maps
The bridge from algorithms to programming can be a short one if students understand the difference between planning out a sequence and encoding that sequence into the appropriate language. This activity will help students gain experience...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell a Story [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to map the story. Materials are included.
BBC
Bbc: Landscapes: Map Skills: Symbols and Keys
A guide for young learners to understand reading maps and their keys.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Map the Path in My Father's Dragon
Lesson that helps students understand map concepts. After listening to the teacher read aloud each chapter of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, students discuss the book and use a map and general direction terms to describe the...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools:more Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature and Reading
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for teaching reading and literature. Elaborate graphic organizers are provided for the following: story maps, character study charts, making text connection maps, conflict...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Map Key
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the purpose of a map, map symbols, and the map key or legend. Activote questions reinforce the concepts.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Capture the Flag
This lesson requires students to read maps in order to play the game capture the flag.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Get to Know Big Al
During this lesson the students will read and discuss the story Big Al, by Andrew Clements. Students will identify the story elements of Big Al and complete a story element map. Students will also do a character analysis of Big Al.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Carnival Parade in Rio: Time & Data: Reading the Time
Jose lives in Rio de Janeiro which is known for its carnival. Join him and find out at what time the parade starts.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Meaning: Semantic Map
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to learn a new word. Materials are included.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Zoom School: United States of America
Use this resource to explore each state to get facts, maps and symbols; learn about the presidents; read about bald eagles and dinosaur fossils found in the U.S., find fun and exciting patriotic crafts and more.
Other popular searches
- Map Reading
- Map Reading Skills
- Earth Science Map Reading
- Esl Map Reading
- Map Reading Activities
- Basic Map Reading
- Map Reading Powerpoint
- Topographic Map Reading
- Map Reading Grade 6
- Reading Maps and Globes
- Lessons on Map Reading
- Elements of Map Reading