Students will follow complex written instructions. Students are paired up and each given a copy of a local street or area ump. Teacher assigns each student a given point of interest keeping this to themselves.
Students review map for legends and other key symbols and abbreviations.
Student will find their home address on the map. Students are instructed to write detailed instructions on how to go from their home to the point of interest given them. The students will exchange the written directions. Using the other students written directions, the students will see if they can follow the written directions of their partner and identify each others point of interest. As a pair, have the students discuss their respective directions and determine how they could rewrite them to make them easier and then rewrite them.