Teacher Created Materials 9798330930234 Pub Date: 6/30/2026 $10.99 Trade Paperback 28 Pages Full-color Carton Qty: 200 Ages 5 to 9, Grades 1 to 3 Juvenile Fiction / Readers JUV044000 Series: Reader's Theater Related Products Ebooks 9798330933037 9798330932078 Why Money Matters Lisa Zamosky, Dona Herweck Rice, Alice Dell Key Selling Points Builds understanding of the key concepts that shape communities and societies. The Knowledge Builders: Social Studies series helps children explore the essential concepts that shape communities and societies. Each engaging nonfiction title combines clear, accessible text with vivid visuals-making complex ideas easy to understand and exciting to explore. Includes Maps, timelines, diagrams, and primary source imagery Hands-on activities, annotated visuals, foldout maps Introduce students to the importance of money choices in everyday life with Why Money Matters, an interactive Reader’s Theater script. Summary Introduce students to the ways money influences choices in everyday life with this interactive Reader’s Theater script! Through rich storytelling, this script explains the costs and benefits of saving and spending, showing how employment and income affect the decisions families make. Students learn how opportunity cost helps people weigh what they might gain against what they could lose. By connecting these ideas to a real-life situation, the script highlights the importance of making thoughtful financial choices. Why Money Matters Connects key economics concepts to students’ everyday lives with a relatable, real-world example Encourages students to think critically about the financial decision-making process Provides informational content at the end of the script to support financial literacy Why Money Matters is part of the Reader’s Theater series. These six-part social studies scripts bring history, economics, geography, and civics to life. Students step right into their roles, building fluency while experiencing social studies in action. These interactive performances let students connect more deeply with the content and each other. Contributor Bio Dona Herweck Rice is the prolific author of books, stories, and poems for children of all ages. She’s written hundreds of books and more on just about every topic under the sun, from acrobats to zucchini and everything in between. She has also written award- winning books and curriculums for educators, especially on the subjects of writing and language arts. In fact, her first publications were a series for teachers on how to teach writing in the classroom. She spearheaded the development of Write TIME for Kids, which earned the Golden Lamp award for curriculum from the Association of American Publishers. Her writing is featured heavily in such acclaimed series as Focused Phonics, Untold Stories, Fiction Readers, Nonfiction Readers, Learn and Create, and more. Dona’s best-selling children’s title with more than 13,000 copies is How Plants Grow, and her most recent titles include dozens of books for the Exploration Storytime series, two titles in the Curious Me!™ board book series, and Ride with Rampage in partnership with the Los Angeles Rams. When Dona visits classrooms to talk about being an author, the most requested titles include History’s Mysteries, Bad Guys and Gals of the Wild West, and Oh, Rats!––the latter being one of Dona’s particular TCM FSP Shell and CUB 2026 Titles
