CSI Chapters: Money Doesn't Grow on Trees

What do people mean when they say “Money doesn’t grow on trees”? Is winning the lottery the only way to become rich? You’ll be surprised to see how many easy ways there are to be successful with money in this multi-touch book!

This multi-touch book supports the teaching of financial literacy, including teaching students four basic steps for ‘becoming rich’, spending smartly, budgeting, setting goals, and starting to save early. 


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

• An index and clearly structured text with headings that signify the information in each section to help the reader to navigate the text

• Captioned photographs, charts, tables and procedures that clarify the text 

• Subject-specific words with their meanings explained in a digital glossary 

• Mathematical concepts and problems explored in well-labelled tables.



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.