CSI Chapters: The Boy Who Saved Too Much

Tyson needs to save a lot of money to reach a big goal, but he must learn some important lessons along the way! Find out if it’s possible to save too much money in this multi-touch book.


This multi-touch book supports the teaching of financial literacy, including teaching students about saving and the ‘magic’ of compound interest.


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



Text characteristics

• A fictional narrative in six titled chapters

• Mathematical concepts explored in a carefully crafted story

• Abstract ideas accompanied by concrete examples in the text that help support students’ understanding

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

• Humour that lightens the informative content.

• A simple graph that clarifies the text. 



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.