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Uen: Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Maps Lesson PlanUen: Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Maps Lesson Plan
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Utah Education Network
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Pre-K - 1st
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Uen: Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Maps

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Lesson designed to introduce maps and the cardinal directions. After listening to the teacher read aloud or tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood, students retell the story and use cutouts of landmarks and arrows to create a map of her journey to Grandmother's house. Students repeat the exercise using cardinal directions and the story The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.

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cardinal directions, map skills

Additional Tags

create maps, directions, cardinal direction, map construction

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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