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Cross-Curricular Reading Comprehension Worksheets: B-20 of 36

Money, Money, Everywhere!


Name: _________________________________
Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics
Answer the following questions based on the reading
passage. Don’t forget to go back to the passage
Money helps us buy things we need and want. whenever necessary to find or confirm your answers.
People earn money by working at all different kinds of
jobs. You can earn money even if you are a child. Your
parents may pay you to do extra chores around the 1) How do people earn money?
house. ____________________________________
If you have money, you can use it for many things. ____________________________________
You can pay bills. You can buy things from stores. You 2) What can we do with money?
can save it in the bank. Before people had money to
____________________________________
use, they traded things with each other. Some people
used beads or shells for money. ____________________________________
Paper money is also called dollars. The numbers on 3) What did people use before there was money?
the paper money tell how many dollars it is worth. If ____________________________________
it has a one on it, it is a one dollar bill. Five, ten, and ____________________________________
twenty dollar bills are also common. 4) How can you tell how much paper money is
Coins are made from different kinds of metal. They worth? _____________________________
are worth part of a dollar. There are dollar coins but they ____________________________________
are rare. Amounts less than a whole dollar are counted
in cents. It takes 100 cents to make a dollar. Each coin
5) How do we count money that is less than a
is worth a different number of cents. A penny is worth
whole dollar? ________________________
only 1 cent. A nickel is worth 5 cents. A dime is worth 10
cents. A quarter is worth 25 cents. ____________________________________

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Cross-Curricular Reading Comprehension Worksheets: B-20 of 36

Money, Money, Everywhere! Key


Name: _________________________________
Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics
Answer the following questions based on the reading
passage. Don’t forget to go back to the passage
Money helps us buy things we need and want. whenever necessary to find or confirm your answers.
People earn money by working at all different kinds of
jobs. You can earn money even if you are a child. Your Actual answers may vary.
parents may pay you to do extra chores around the 1) How do people earn money?
house. by working at different jobs
____________________________________
If you have money, you can use it for many things. ____________________________________
You can pay bills. You can buy things from stores. You 2) What can we do with money?
can save it in the bank. Before people had money to
pay bills or buy things or save it
____________________________________
use, they traded things with each other. Some people
used beads or shells for money. ____________________________________
Paper money is also called dollars. The numbers on 3) What did people use before there was money?
the paper money tell how many dollars it is worth. If They traded things or used
____________________________________
it has a one on it, it is a one dollar bill. Five, ten, and shells or beads.
____________________________________
twenty dollar bills are also common. 4) How can you tell how much paper money is
Coins are made from different kinds of metal. They worth? _____________________________
are worth part of a dollar. There are dollar coins but they the number on the paper money
____________________________________
are rare. Amounts less than a whole dollar are counted
in cents. It takes 100 cents to make a dollar. Each coin
5) How do we count money that is less than a
is worth a different number of cents. A penny is worth
cents
whole dollar? ________________________
only 1 cent. A nickel is worth 5 cents. A dime is worth 10
cents. A quarter is worth 25 cents. ____________________________________

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