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4th grade economics guided reading books
Economics Detective Series for Kids - Striker Jones 1 and 2 Combo
Striker Jones is a unique classic kids detective series that teaches children ages 8-12 basic economic concepts. Use it to introduce economic concepts like wants vs. needs or incentives, and enrich your social studies curriculum with fun stories your kids will love. Now, in this combo pack, get both books for 40% off!See feedback from teachers who are already using the first novel in their classrooms!This download includes two full-length novels in various e-book forms (pdf, Kindle, ePub).1) St
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3rd - 6th
Lawn Boy Discussion Guide, Chapter Quizzes, & Activities
Gary Paulsen is an all time favorite author with my students! I love to glance around my classroom during reading groups to see my students absorbed in the books we are reading. Gary Paulsen's Lawn Boy will keep your students laughing and wondering what could possibly happen next!This resource includes:Teacher discussion guide with prepared questions for each chapterChapter vocabulary wordsChapter quizzes with answer keyOn Your Questions for students to reflect and write their thoughts and opin
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4th - 7th
GreatCents Books: What Are Coins?
Embark on a charming adventure with Roscoe the Raccoon in "What are Coins?" as he takes young readers on a delightful journey into the fascinating world of currency. Authored by Blake Teichmeier, this enchanting children's book not only introduces the concept of coins but turns learning into a musical experience.Join Roscoe as he discovers the unique qualities of each coin, transforming what might seem like a mundane subject into an engaging and educational exploration. Through the whimsical rhy
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PreK - 5th
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GreatCents Books: My Money ABCs
Embark on a fascinating journey into the world of finance with "My Money ABCs," where A is for "Ask" and M is for "Money." Authored by Blake Teichmeier, this enchanting book introduces young readers to essential financial concepts through a creative fusion of words and poems.As children flip through the pages, they'll discover the power of asking questions about money (A is for "Ask"), fostering a curious mindset that will serve them well in their financial journey. Moving on to M, young minds w
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K - 6th
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Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm Novel Guide Elementary Financial Literacy
Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm Novel Guide Elementary Economics, Financial Literacy & Language Arts. This resource perfectly blends foundational principles of economics, cost and benefit, job market, scarcity, cost-benefit analysis, bartering, needs and wants, consumers and producers with language arts of this immersive and highly engaging elementary novel.Another wonderful novel by Jennifer L. Holm that teaches foundational principles of economics. This novel is engaging and a yearly re-
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3rd - 6th
Financial Literacy and Elementary Economics Featuring The Three Little Pigs
Financial Literacy and Elementary Economics Featuring The Three Little Pigswill teach the basics of financial literacy and elementary economics to your students. They will learn about needs and wants, cost and benefit, scarcity, opportunity cost and apply it to their everyday life. After this lesson students will be able to: Understanding and identifying opportunity costUnderstanding cost and benefit of our every day actions Relating scarcity and opportunity cost to possible future events Scarci
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2nd - 4th
The Lemonade Crime Comprehension Questions 1-3
This resource is for students reading the The Lemonade Crime. Students can have access to google classroom in order to answer questions and teachers are able to grade with ease.
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2nd - 8th
Economics Focused Book Groups
This series of book group packets guides teachers and students through the reading of five YA novels, all of which have underlying economic principles written in to them. This set of book group packets pairs well with social studies curriculum and also integrates some math word problems into your studies. The set includes the following books:
Crunch by Leslie Connor, 490L,
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen, 780L, R Guided Reading
The Toothpaste Millionaire By Jean Merrill, 820L, S Guided Reading
The
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4th - 6th
Frindle Comprehension Packet Economics
Frindle is a fun and engaging book that I use with my integrated economics unit. This book gets my students excited about studying economics and they begin to learn how economics and entrepreneurship works. This product also includes modified materials for special education students.
This packet includes:
*cover page for reading packet
*5 questions for each chapter in multiple choice format
*a modified version of question packet for special education students that provides the same question bu
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4th - 5th
The Ladder of Success: People, Pursuits & Prosperity
PURPOSE, PROGRESS, LIFE-BALANCE & HAPPINESSEnjoy this colorful fully illustrated book to help you climb the ladder of success. Beware of seeking things that cannot satisfy your soul, neither make you whole. Too often when we get what we want, we no longer want what we have got. This is because as we dig deeper into our core, we discover our values are misaligned and thereby our energy misappropriated. Therefore, we end up broke, busted and disgusted; though often possessing many things outwa
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Wealthy Mind: Position Your Brain for Maximum Gain
In the beginning, man lived in the garden of Eden where there was a plentiful abundance of everything and bountiful blessings to be enjoyed happily by all. Connect with God to awaken your creative ability, discover your gifts, talents and the treasures within wherein is the power to produce wealth and attract unlimited resources to live your dreams. Renew your mind, update your identity and accelerate your destiny. Leave behind stinking thinking and a poverty mentality that ensnares your soul an
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Toothpaste Millionaire (by Jean Merrill) Reading Group Packet
This packet guides students through their reading of The Toothpaste Millionaire, by Jean Merrill, in three parts while focusing on literary reading standards from the Common Core.
The Toothpaste Millionaire is a short book that students often breeze through, missing much of the vocabulary, depth, and well developed themes. By using this book as in a guided reading group teachers are able to ask students to pause and examine the author's opinions on race and economics. There are even many math
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4th - 6th
Needs and Wants Printable Book
Product DescriptionWhat do we want? What do we really need? Students will learn the difference between requirements and desires in this helpful leveled reader. The text uses familiar situations that students easily connect to, and the illustrations cleverly show how we often wish for what we want even as we get what we needWhat is inside the bookUnderstand the difference between a need and a want by using everyday situations to understand the conceptStudents will complete each sentence by thinki
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K - 4th
Fun with Economics
This unit follows along with Georgia GPS. There are 2 assessments included. There is a mini-book to use to teach economics, an informational writing rubric, performance tasks, and a decision making tree.
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2nd - 5th
Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm Novel Guide Financial Literacy
Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm Novel Guide Financial Literacy & Language Arts. This resource perfectly blends foundational principles of economics, cost and benefit, job market, scarcity, cost-benefit analysis, bartering, needs and wants, consumers and producers with language arts of this immersive and highly engaging elementary novel. Another wonderful novel by Jennifer L. Holm that teaches foundational principles of economics. This novel is engaging and a yearly re-read. This resourc
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3rd - 6th
Crunch (by Leslie Connor) Book Group Packet
This packet guides students through their reading of Crunch, by Leslie Connor, in three parts while focusing on literary reading standards from the Common Core.
Crunch is a low level, high interest book that easily ties to economics studies. Interest level is listed as middle grade students (per Scholastic Book Wizard) while the reading level is listed at 490L (3.6 grade level equivalent)
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4th - 6th
The Last Newspaper Boy in America (by Sue Corbett) Reading Group Packet
This packet guides students through their reading of The Last Newspaper Boy in America, by Sue Corbett, in three parts while focusing on literary reading standards from the Common Core.
The Last Newspaper Boy in America is a great book for middle grade students. It is assessed as an 830L level. This book also pairs well with economic and government studies as the main characters are using democratic and capitalist means to try to save their newspaper route as well as promote economic growth in
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4th - 6th
The Get Rich Quick Club Book Study
This book study goes along with the book The Get Rich Quick Club by Dan Gutman. The book is fast paced and funny- your students will love it!Included in this packet are: -Multiple Writing Prompts -Comprehension questions for every chapter-Word Search-Book review writing prompt with rubric-Research topics on economics/ jobs-Predictions about upcoming chapters-Matching Terms-Creative Photography Project(You can easily incorporate lessons about economics into this book study. I used the online prog
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2nd - 5th
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Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
This novel study looks at Gary Paulsen's enchanting tale, Lawn Boy. In this book, students will learn about a capitalistic economy through the adventures of a 12 year old with a lawnmower. This study guide provides questions associated with reading skills, as well as learning about the economy throughout the chapters and in some projects after reading.
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3rd - 8th
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The Lemonade Crime Comprehension Questions 7-9
This resource is for students reading the The Lemonade Crime. Students can have access to google classroom in order to answer questions and teachers are able to grade with ease.
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2nd - 8th
Book Discussion Booklet: social studies connections
Book Discussion Packet
This package includes an editable printable book discussion booklet that gets students organizing their strategies, meetings and reading. (see my Reading Strategies packet or buy the Economics BDG Bundle for everything!)
What does this packet specifically include?
Editable Book Discussion packet ( I call it a Book Discussion Group or BDG)
Title page for book group picture & parent, student, teacher signature
Purpose & sample book discussion meeting schedule
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3rd - 7th
Also included in: BUNDLE: Social Studies Activities {4 connecting book}
The Lemonade Crime Comprehension 4-6
This resource is for students reading the The Lemonade Crime. Students can have access to google classroom in order to answer questions and teachers are able to grade with ease.
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2nd - 8th
Lemonade War Google Slides
Ask you read the Lemonade War scholars can use comprehension skills to answer questions based on each chapter of the book.
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3rd - 5th
Personal Finance for Smart Kids
Children have plans and dreams. There are things they want-and things they want to accomplish. If they want a new sports cycle, it'll take money. If they want a career; it'll take money to get training or to go to college. They know that money has a big effect on getting what they want. As they grow older, they will have more and more choices to make about how to lead their life. Money can help them make choices about where they live, how they live, and what they do. Today is out of their contro
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3rd - 9th
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Economics activities to try
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Simulation Activities
You can introduce students to the world of investing, budgeting, and other economics-related activities through simulations. For example, have students research companies they want to "invest" in to show them how the stock market works. If you want to extend the lesson, you can have them periodically check in on their portfolios throughout the year to see how their investments are performing. Or, you could use a simulation to teach them about causes that led up to certain major historical events, like the stock market crash of 1929.
Budgeting Exercises
Help students understand the importance of managing their own financial resources by challenging them to create a budget. Give them a few hypothetical scenarios involving income, expenses, and financial goals. For example, you could ask them to plan a fictional character's monthly expenses, or have them create a budget to save for buying a house.
Trade Games
Through trading games, students can learn about importing and exporting, along with the impact of external forces and trade agreements. Ask students to work in teams and have them trade goods, record their imports and exports, and respond to charges (like tariffs and embargoes).
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Give students a real-world decision to make (e.g., building a new road, investing in a new technology, or buying property) and have them perform a cost-benefit analysis. To deepen the learning, you can ask them to justify their decisions with evidence.
Frequently asked questions for teaching economics
What is economics?
The study of economics is a social science that focuses on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. When teaching economics, the goal is to help students understand how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies make choices about resource allocation. Economics explores various topics related to this, including supply and demand, cost and benefits, and scarcity, to name just a few.
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