Making Big Bolstead Bucks
Making Big Bolstead Bucks
Making Big Bolstead Bucks
Making Big Bolstead Bucks
Making Big Bolstead Bucks
Making Big Bolstead Bucks
Making Big Bolstead Bucks
Realistic (fiction), 2,888 words, Level X (Grade 5), Lexile 910L
What would you design and sell if you could be an entrepreneur for a day? Making Big Bolstead Bucks is a realistic fiction book that follows a group of students and their teacher as they learn the basics of how capitalism works. Their assignment is to work in small groups to start their own business. Mr. Bolstead teaches his students about borrowing money with interest, supply and demand, and profit as they compete to win the contest in a real-world simulation. Illustrations support the text.
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Lesson Resources
Teach the Objectives
Reading Strategy
Use the reading strategy of retelling to understand and remember a story
Comprehension
Author's Purpose : Identify the author's purpose
Grammar and Mechanics
Commas : Recognize and understand the use of commas to separate dialogue
Word Work
Concept Words : Read and understand number words
Think, Collaborate, Discuss
Promote higher-order thinking for small groups
or whole class
