{"id":352141,"date":"2010-02-22T22:47:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2416"},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:47:55","slug":"teaching-economics-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-a-bargain-for-frances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352141","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Economics with Children\u2019s Literature: A Bargain for Frances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/02\/bargainforfrances1-799349.jpg\" title=\"BargainforFrancescover\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/02\/bargainforfrances1-799349.jpg\" title=\"BargainforFrancescover\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/02\/bargainforfrances.jpg\" title=\"cover\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/02\/bargainforfrances.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bargain-Frances-Can-Read-Book\/dp\/006444001X\">A Bargain for Frances<\/a>, written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/authors\/12220\/Russell_Hoban\/index.aspx\">Russell Hoban<\/a> and illustrated by Lillian Hoban, teaches children about saving money, making choices, and purchasing carefully.\u00a0 Frances is saving for a real china tea set with blue pictures painted on but her friend Thelma convinces Frances to buy her old plastic tea set by telling her that they don&#8217;t make real china tea sets anymore.\u00a0 Then, Thelma takes the money and buys a china tea set like the one Frances had been saving for.\u00a0 Frances cleverly figures out how to get Thelma to trade the new tea set for her old one.\u00a0 This story has some valuable lessons for young children, not only about saving, purchasing, and making decisions but about being careful not to be tricked and about being respectful to friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This book can be used in instruction to teach students about using money to purchase things (VA SOL K.7), making choices because you cannot have everything you want (VA SOL 1.8), and saving money to purchase things they want (VA SOL 1.9).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In this interactive game, players earn and save enough money to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapefromknab.com\/land.html\">Escape from Knab<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsbank.com\/\">Kids Bank<\/a> teaches kids about money and banking in a fun, interactive way<\/li>\n<li>Learn about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmint.gov\/kids\/cartoons\/birthOfACoin\/\">Birth of a Coin<\/a> on the US Mint site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>General Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Book: A Bargain for Frances<br \/>\nAuthor: Russell Hoban<br \/>\nIllustrator: Lillian Hoban<br \/>\nPublisher: Harper Collins<br \/>\nPublication date: 1970, 1992, 2008<br \/>\nPages: 64<br \/>\nGrade Range: K-2<br \/>\nISBN: 006444001X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bargain for Frances, written by Russell Hoban and illustrated by Lillian Hoban, teaches children about saving money, making choices, and purchasing carefully.\u00a0 Frances is saving for a real china tea set with blue pictures painted on but her friend Thelma convinces Frances to buy her old plastic tea set by telling her that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}