Worksheets to use with the Courier Journal and the Stock Market Game and/or Take Stock in Kentucky.
Big Idea: Forming a Foundation (Reading)
Forming a foundation requires readers to develop and apply basic reading skills and strategies across genres to read and understand texts at the appropriate grade level. This involves reading a variety of texts at the word, sentence, and connected text level across all content areas.
Academic Expectations
1.1 Students use reference tools such as dictionaries, almanacs, encyclopedias, and computer reference programs and research tools.
1.2 Students make sense of the variety of materials they read.
5.1 Students use critical thinking skills such as analyzing, prioritizing, categorizing, evaluating, and comparing to solve a variety of problems in real-life situations.
5.4 Students use a decision-making process to make informed decisions among options.
Academic Expectations
2.18 Students understand economic principles and are able to make economic decisions that have consequences in daily living
Financial Data - Reading Stock Pages
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