Rosie's Market Day: Money Words and Smart Choices

A speech and language lesson for grades 3-5 built around one short story. Rosie the raccoon is saving for a red scooter. Students learn six money words (earn, save, spend, budget, need, want), sort needs from wants, answer who, what, why and how-much questions about Rosie's story, find its big idea, use two-meaning words like bank, bill and save, work out what is left of a $10 budget, infer how a friend feels after spending everything at once, and finish by catching every way to earn money on a moving conveyor belt. Every passage and question has a read-aloud button, and every answer choice can be heard.

• 15 scenes with a read-aloud button on every passage and question
• A short story split across six scenes, each with its question
• Need-or-want sort, two-meaning words and a $10 budget problem
• A conveyor-belt finale: catch every way to earn money

• Use money words: earn, save, spend, budget, need and want
• Sort needs from wants
• Answer who, what, why and how-much questions about a story
• Use context to choose the meaning of bank, bill and save
• Work out what is left of a budget
• Infer how a character feels from what they do