Teaching Financial Literacy With Max and Ruby. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Brown, Natalya; Ferguson, Kristen
• Is Part Of: Childhood education. Volume 93:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 58
• Page End: 65
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Education -- Periodicals; Kindergarten -- Periodicals; Child Psychology -- Periodicals; Education -- Periodicals; Éducation -- Périodiques; Jardins d'enfants -- Périodiques; 372.05
• DOI: 10.1080/00094056.2017.1275239
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0009-4056

Abstract

Abstract : Teaching financial literacy is important at all stages of life, but is often neglected with elementary students. In this article, the authors describe a strategy for teaching financial literacy using the books about Max and Ruby by Rosemary Wells. These books can help introduce the five key concepts of financial literacy: scarcity, exchange, money, saving, and giving. The practical and hands-on classroom activities they propose integrate the stories, language arts, and financial literacy through dramatic retelling, using graphic organizers, a learning center, writing and drawing activities, and classroom conversations.