Reading Maps (A True Book: Information Literacy) - Softcover

Cunningham, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0531262375 ISBN 13: 9780531262375

Publisher: Children's Press, 2012

Synopsis

Discover how maps were first created and how they have changed throughout history.

Learning to read maps can help us find our way in the world. Maps are also important tools for understanding history, foreign lands, and a host of other subjects. Readers (Grades 3-5) will learn how to use lines of longitude and latitude, decipher map legends, and use a compass to orient a map in the real world.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Gr 2-4-These books advertise that everything you read in them is "All New All True!" Although the material is important and updated, the information is not new and it is not engaging. Maps includes the compass rose, orientation, latitude and longitude, legend, and online maps. Charts discusses graphic organizers, spreadsheets, tables, personal planners, line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, scatter plots, flow charts, and note-taking charts. Diagrams covers Venn diagrams, cluster maps, problem-solving diagrams, t-charts, research-paper organizers, persuasive-letter organizers, maps, drawings, and cycle diagrams. Both Charts and Diagrams have several "Try It" pages that give readers an opportunity to create some of the examples being discussed-these could be helpful in the classroom. There is a "Big Truth!" spread in each book, such as a chart for March Madness and Florence Nightingale's rose diagram-although it is not obvious why it is a big truth. Layout includes plenty of photos, illustrations, and graphics. There are a few captions that don't go with the pictures; for example, the cover of Diagrams shows a layered drawing of a volcano, but the caption reads, "Diagrams have been found in cave paintings." Despite the minor issues, these books provide solid curriculum support if material on the subjects is needed.- Stephanie Farnlacher, Trace Crossings Elementary School, Hoover, ALα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

About this edition

• Publisher: Children's Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0531262375
• ISBN 13: 9780531262375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48