CSI Chapters: Crash‪!‬

Can one crash affect the entire world? It can if it’s a stock market crash! Find out how past stock market crashes have affected people’s lives, and what we can do to protect ourselves from crashes in the future, in this multi-touch book.


This multi-touch book supports the teaching of financial literacy, including teaching students what shares and stock market crashes and how to avoid losing big with future investments.  


FREE teacher support material is available to download from www.csi-literacy.com/downloads. Includes alignment with Level 3 English, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics achievement objectives from The New Zealand Curriculum.


Text characteristics

• A non-fiction, informational text structured into five titled chapters

• Subject-specific vocabulary with meanings explained in a glossary 

• Infographics including timelines, tables and captioned historical photographs 

• Text boxes that include supplementary information 

• An index for information retrieval 

• A procedure in the form of two recipes.



CSI Chapters is part of the CSI Literacy series, which builds strategic, metacognitive readers by teaching comprehension, vocabulary and world knowledge across a variety of subjects in fiction and non-fiction.