Oh. One more thing. When he was 5, we got him one of those hard laminate maps of our city (from Streetwise) to carry in his pack. We used alcohol markers to circle our house, his school, friends houses, grandparents house, his favorite stores (Toys R' Us & grocer).

He pulls it out and points out intersections when we are at stoplights. We have marked out a couple of locations we have found geocaches aka Buried Treasure. So he points that out to friends too.

An iPhone google app also helps with interactive map reading skills when you set a destination (with red dot) and they can follow the blue dot (you) moving towards it.