CSI Chapters: The Garden

Receiving a gift is always a nice surprise. But what if the gift will cost money to keep? This multi-touch book shows you how to solve this dilemma!


This multi-touch book supports the teaching of financial literacy, including teaching students about investment, buying and selling, advertising and cost of living. 


FREE teacher support material is available to download from www.csi-literacy.com/downloads. Includes alignment with Levels 2 and 3 English, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics achievement objectives from The New Zealand Curriculum.


Text characteristics

• A realistic, fictional narrative in six titled chapters

• Mathematical concepts explored in an authentic context

• Subject-specific and other challenging words, with their meanings explained in a glossary 

• Sequential processes and problem-solving ideas

• Humour that lightens the informative content.



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.