Maps

Blue Band 4

Maps

Letters and Sounds Phase 4

Phonemes covered: Adjacent consonants with long vowel phonemes

Maps

Maps were invented for explorers to roam the planet.

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Explorers living 800 years ago were sure our planet was flat, but they had not seen it all.

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They invented maps with monsters and mermaids.

They painted on cloth and parchment.

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Sailors 300 years on took fleets of ships to start seeing the planet.

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Explorers went on quests to unspoilt lands.

The planet is not flat!

We agree!

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Clearer maps were painted. There were no monsters and mermaids, but green lands, hills and rivers.

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Astronomers and inventors had maps of the stars and planets.

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