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Many adults want to learn how to manage their money and finances better. But the information to help them is written at too high a level. This free course can help. The lessons introduce financial ideas and vocabulary, but at a reading level that is accessible. They also give reading strategies that help adults understand when reading financial or money information.
This course introduces financial topics through engaging articles about trading clothes, managing credit cards, owning a home, being smart about payday loans, shopping on a budget, or becoming your own boss.
Here’s an excerpt from the lesson on Owning a Home.
“Listen,” Maria said. “You call the bank. Tell them what happened. Maybe they’ll cut you some slack. They do that sometimes. You want to lose this house? Because that’s the next thing that’s going to happen. Foreclosure. Ever heard of it?”
“Course I heard of it,” Joyce said. “But I don’t have any money. I can’t pay what I don’t have, so why should I talk to anyone?”
Maria just shook her head. “You gotta at least try,” she said. “There are things they can do. Reset the mortgage...”
These stories introduce adults to important money terms like profit, interest rate, minimum payment, mortgage, creditor, and discount. They also expand the reader’s everyday vocabulary with words like concept, expiration, reassuring, and outrageous. These are words found in a variety of high-level text.
In each lesson, readers learn the definition of these vocabulary words, see them used in the context of the story, then complete activities focused on integrating the words into their reading and writing vocabulary.
Each lesson introduces broad comprehension strategies like reading in small chunks, asking questions, summarizing, and taking notes. Each lesson also introduces specific reading comprehension skills like classifying information, understanding cause and effect, and identifying the main idea and details of an article.
The reader has a chance to apply these skills and strategies as they read the stories. Then exercises after the story provide additional opportunities for practice. Learning to use these strategies and skills will improve reading comprehension.
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