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Work and Money on Juniper Avenue

Read about a family shop, then explain how work brings in money and how people use money to buy goods and services.

Grade 1Social StudiesInteractive · Printable

Aligned toECO.1.2

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 C3 Framework standard
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  • 14 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 1
Subject
Social Studies
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students explain that people earn money by doing work.
  • Students identify goods and services people buy with money.
  • Students connect a worker's earnings to later purchases.

How to use

Read the story aloud, pausing to discuss who works and who pays. Have students use details from the story when answering the final questions.

Curriculum

C3 Framework standard covered

ECO.1.2

Explain how people earn money by working and use it to buy goods and services.

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Work and Money on Juniper Avenue

Follow one family as they work, earn money and make purchases.

Read about the shop

Listen as your teacher reads the story. Then answer the questions.

The Juniper Avenue Stitch Shop

On Juniper Avenue, Laila and her uncle Omar run a small stitch shop. Laila sews loose buttons back onto coats and shortens pants. Customers give her money for this work. Omar makes sturdy cloth bags. People give him money when they take a bag home. The two workers earn money by doing their jobs.

After the shop closes, Laila and Omar use some of their money. They buy vegetables at a market for dinner. They also pay for a bus ride home. Niko, Laila's child, helps sweep the shop but does not get paid. Niko learns that people can earn money by working and then use money to buy things or pay for help.

1.
Why do customers give Laila money?
  • A. She sews and changes clothing for them.
  • B. She rides the bus home with them.
  • C. She buys vegetables for their dinners.
  • D. She sweeps the shop after it closes.
2.
What would probably happen if no customers came to the stitch shop?
  • A. The bus would bring them more vegetables.
  • B. Niko would get paid for sweeping the floor.
  • C. Laila and Omar would receive less money from shop work.
  • D. The market would make cloth bags for the shop.

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