Ways to Use
You can assign all or only parts of a module. Perhaps you only want to use the stories. Either way your students will benefit from using this resource.
Readers Theatre
Reader's Theatre is a short activity that allows you students to act out a financial theme from a prepared story or scipt (not usually longer than a few pages). In my class, I hightlight the parts they will play and ask for volunteers. For the first few stories I act as narrator and director, prompting them to act the parts as they read the story.
You could create your own scripts or stories but the "The City" www.themoneybelt.gc.ca/theCity-laZone/eng/login-eng.aspx from the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada provides stories that start off each concept in Financial Literacy.
These stories or scripts are a fun and engaging way to introduce the concepts and when linked with a brief discussion period after, provides some of the understanding of basic financial literacy.
Click below to see an example of the script from "The City".
Using the Web
- Parallel in-class modules
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Use interactive format
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The website www.themoneybelt.gc.ca/theCity-laZone/eng/login-eng.aspx will require you and your students to sign-up
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The website mirrors the book but allows for students to understand the material at their own rate
- Inside the website you can create your own class, download materials for class or listen to two users of the The City tell you how they use it in their classrooms
- A sample rubric for using "The City Online" is listed below
final reflection financial literacy.doc (90 kB)