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1 ARTICLE-A-DAY Maps 8 Articles Check articles you have read: All Kinds of Maps 104 words How to Draw a Map 105 words The Difference Between Maps and Globes 108 words Learn About Maps 96 words Seven Large Lands 96 words Make a Map 157 words Finding Places with a Map 205 words Learning About Earth 199 words Page 1 of 9 ReadWorks.org 2018 ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.

NO_PA, Inc. 2014 A All Kinds of Maps All Kinds of Maps By Susan LaBella Maps are picture s with information about place s. Pe ople use many kinds of maps. Some maps show a country and its parts.

2 NO_PA, Inc A All Kinds of Maps All Kinds of Maps By Susan LaBella Maps are picture s with information about place s. Pe ople use many kinds of maps. Some maps show a country and its parts. For e xample, a Unite d State s map would show all fifty states. It would also show capital cities. Other maps may show streets and roads in cities or towns. People use these maps to find their way. Many maps show where water and land can be found. The color blue is often used for rivers and lakes. Brown or green is used to show land. Weather maps show the weather in a place. Different colors or symbols stand for rain, snow, or sunny weather. Page 2 of 9

NO_PA, Inc. 2013 A How to Draw a Map How to Draw a Map By ReadWo rks Photo Credit: Dan Foy Did you ever have new students in your class? New students need to learn everyone s name.

3 NO_PA, Inc A How to Draw a Map How to Draw a Map By ReadWo rks Photo Credit: Dan Foy Did you ever have new students in your class? New students need to learn everyone s name. They need to know where things are in the classroom too. You can help by drawing a map of the classroom. Use a pencil and a large piece of white paper. Draw a square or rectangle. Mark the places a new student may need to find. Draw a desk to show where your teacher sits. Show where the reading center is. Show where the science center is. Draw an X to show the door. Now your ne w frie nds will have a map of the ir classroom. Page 3 of ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.

NO_PA 2013 The Difference Between Maps and Globes The Difference Between Maps and Globes By ReadWo rks Where are you? Maps and globes can help you answer that question.

You can fold a map and put it in your pocke t. A globe is a big round ball that shows you the world. You can spin a globe around.

4 NO_PA 2013 The Difference Between Maps and Globes The Difference Between Maps and Globes By ReadWo rks Where are you? Maps and globes can help you answer that question. But maps and globes are diffe re nt. Maps are flat. Globe s are round. A map is a flat picture of a place. A map is e asy to carry. You can fold a map and put it in your pocke t. A globe is a big round ball that shows you the world. You can spin a globe around. Maps let you see all the places in the world at the same time. Globes give you a better picture of what our round planet looks like from space. Maps and globes help you see the world in different ways! Page 4 of ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.

5 2014 About Maps About Maps By Susan LaBella NO_PALearn Maps are pictures of places. Special drawings on maps help people use them. A compass rose is a symbol found on maps. It shows dire ctions. The compass rose has four main points. One point shows which way is north. Anothe r shows south. Othe r points show e ast and we st. A map key is a box with picture s and words. The words te ll what a picture stands for. The word city may be next to a dot. The word forest may be next to a tree. The map key shows people what the drawings on the map mean. Page 5 of 9

NO_PA, Inc. 2013 A Seven Large Lands Seven Large Lands By ReadWo rks Our world is made up of land and water. The seven large lands are called continents.

6 NO_PA, Inc A Seven Large Lands Seven Large Lands By ReadWo rks Our world is made up of land and water. The seven large lands are called continents. The United State s is part of the contine nt of North Ame rica. The contine nts from larg e st to smalle st are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. This silly sentence may help you remember the names of the continents: All Ants Need Sugar And Eat Apples. The first letter of each word matches the first letter of the name of a continent. Test yourself. See if you can remember the seven continents! Page 6 of ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.

NO_PA, Inc. 2014 A Make a Map Make a Map By Kate Paixao You can make a map that shows where you live. The only tools you need are a piece of paper and a pe ncil.

7 NO_PA, Inc A Make a Map Make a Map By Kate Paixao You can make a map that shows where you live. The only tools you need are a piece of paper and a pe ncil. Maps use symbols to represent what they show. Your first job is to decide on symbols. How will your map show house s, roads, schools, store s, and othe r place s in your ne ig hborhood? Start by drawing a symbol for your home. The n draw your stre e t. Show building s, tre e s, parks, and roads nearby. You may need to go outside to do this part. Do not let the map cover the entire piece of paper! When you are done mapping, find a corner of the page to make a legend. A legend is a box that tells what each symbol means. Draw a house, a tree, a road, and any other symbol you used. Then write the names of each symbol. Finally, show your frie nds your map. Se e if the y can find the ir way around using your cre ation. Page 7 of 9

NO_PA 2014 Finding Places with a Map Finding Places with a Map By Kate Paixao Maps help people understand the world. A world map shows where places are on Earth.

8 NO_PA 2014 Finding Places with a Map Finding Places with a Map By Kate Paixao Maps help people understand the world. A world map shows where places are on Earth. That map helps us see how close or far one country is from another. A road map includes streets and highways. It helps travelers figure out how to get where they want to go. Maps use symbols. A dot may stand for a city. A swing may represent a park. Maps include a key, or legend, listing those symbols. The legend tells what each symbol means. Finding places on a map is not always simple. That is why maps use numbers, letters, and lists to make the search easier. Here is an example. Most maps use a grid, which is like a checkerboard. Along one edge of the grid, small letters are spaced evenly. On another side, numbers are printed in the same way. Those maps include a list of places. Next to the name of each place will be a letter and a number such as A7. To find that place, you look for A on the letter side of the map, and 7 on the number side. Finally, you locate the area where the letter and the number meet. Nearby, you should find the place you re looking for! Page 8 of 9

NO_PA 2014 Learning About Earth Learning About Earth By Linda Rug g ieri Look at a map of Earth. You will se e lots of blue. Blue is the color usually use d to show wate r.

9 NO_PA 2014 Learning About Earth Learning About Earth By Linda Rug g ieri Look at a map of Earth. You will se e lots of blue. Blue is the color usually use d to show wate r. Those large patches of water are called oceans. You will also see big areas of land. They are called contine nts. Pe ople make maps to show what our plane t looks like. Looking at a map, you can le arn how far one place is from another. You can see which continent is also an island. (The answer is Australia.) You can figure out which ocean is the largest. (The answer is the Pacific.) Over the years, mapmakers drew many maps to help people travel around the world. Then explorers visited places some people did not know about. The explorers shared their discoveries. Mapmakers added the information to their maps. About a hundre d ye ars ag o, one scie ntist studie d a world map and was surprise d. Alfre d We g e ne r thought the edges of two continents looked like matching parts in a jigsaw puzzle. He wondered if Africa and South America had once been joined. Wegener came up with a theory: Millions of years ago, all the continents fit together. Many people thought he was crazy. But today, scientists believe that Alfred Wegener was correct. Page 9 of 9