Economics for Kids

<h2>Economics for Kids Reading Cards | Grades 3</h2>

<p>Teach the building blocks of economics — and build reading skills at the same time. Six short passages walk your third graders through needs and wants, goods and services, producers and consumers, earning, saving, and spending, all while they practice the reading skills you're already teaching. A hands-on cut-and-sort activity ties it all together. A natural fit for a money or economics unit and financial literacy lessons.</p>

<h3>What's Included</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>6 reading passages</strong> — What Is Economics?, Needs and Wants, Goods and Services, Producers and Consumers, Earning Money, and Saving and Spending</li>
<li>A <strong>question and a hands-on task</strong> on every card — including sort tables (needs/wants, goods/services, producers/consumers)</li>
<li>A one-page <strong>review</strong> with 12 quick questions that recap all six passages</li>
<li>A full-page <strong>cut-and-sort activity</strong> — students cut word cards and sort them into needs and wants</li>
<li>An <strong>Economics organizer</strong> to record what students learn</li>
<li>A complete <strong>answer key</strong> for every passage, the review, and the sort</li>
</ul>

<h3>Reading Skills Built In</h3>
<p>Each card focuses on one skill, so this doubles as targeted comprehension practice: <strong>key details and text evidence, main idea, inference,</strong> and <strong>author's purpose</strong> (RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.6).</p>

<h3>How to Use It</h3>
<p><strong>A card a day:</strong> read one at a time, then wrap up with the review and the sort. <strong>Reading centers:</strong> drop a card at a station for independent work and self-checking. <strong>Sub days and fast finishers:</strong> hand over a card and walk away — nothing to set up.</p>

<p><em>Aligned to CA HSS 3.5 and Texas TEKS economics strands. Prints clean in black and white.</em></p>