Integrated Unit- Money, Occupations, & Equity

Reading, Writing, & Mathematics

Subject: Reading, writing, and mathematics instruction

Setting: K-5 Resource Room Number of students: 6-8

Planning, Activating and Building Background Knowledge:

Day One: Planning, Activating and Building Background Knowledge

Discuss uses of money, coins, experiences with money, jobs, etc.

Pre-assessment practice
Day Two: Review Coins

Coin Top It

Race to $1
Day Three: Coin Practice

Money Cards Read the Room

Day Four: Money Skills Practice

Money Think Dots

Money Word Problems

Day Five-Six: Addition/Subtraction with Regrouping Review

Review, practice, and discuss skill

Math Problems Read the Room

Building and Practicing Skills:
Day Seven: Building Money Skills- Counting Coins and Bills

Race to $1

Word work- quarter, nickel, dime, penny, value, sale, income, lend, debt, discount, donate, borrow, coupon, currency

Our Money- pre-reading strategies

People Work- pre-reading strategies

Introduce Writing Project

Spelling words: begin, little, money, into, know

Day Eight: Building Money Skills- Counting Coins and Bills

Making Change practice

Our Money- during/after reading strategies

People Work- during/after reading strategies

Writing Activity- When I grow up

Day Nine: Building Money Skills- Buying, Selling, and Making Change

Money Scoot

Spend a Dollar

Lets Go Shopping

Word work

Im Isabell Monk- pre-reading strategies

Night Shift Daddy- pre-reading strategies

Writing Activity- All About Me booklet

Day Ten: Building Money Skills- Buying, Selling, and Making Change

Money Going Shopping

Im Isabell Monk- during/after reading strategies

Night Shift Daddy- during/after reading strategies

Utilizing Integrated Skills:
Day Eleven: Practicing Integrated Skills

Menu, personal budget, spending, making change

Word work

Guided reading- Retelling Sticks

Day Twelve: Using Integrated Skills

Family budget grocery shopping

Finish All About Me books and share

Money vocabulary- quarter, sale, income, debt, currency, donate

Post-assessment
Assessment and Accountability for Learning:

Pre-and Post-Assessment data

Money vocabulary work

Writing activities- When I Grow up & All About Me Book

Guided reading activities- word work, retelling, reading responses

Exit tickets, work samples, grocery shopping budget activities

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