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Level 2 · ages 9–12OECD FLEarn

The value of skills

🎯 Goal: Understand good skills help you earn more in the future.
You understand good skills help you earn more, and learning early is "investing in yourself" — no one can take it and it improves with use.

Let’s explore

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People with strong skills (writing, coding, cooking, communication) are often paid more.
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Learning and practicing skills early is a kind of “investing in yourself”.
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No one can take your skills, and they get better the more you use them.

Practice activity

🎯 Pick a skill you want to master and one small step to practice it this week.
Worked example: You pick “nice handwriting”. This week’s small step: practice 15 minutes each evening. Later you could write cards and name tags for money — skills improve with practice.

Quick quiz

1. People with strong skills are often?
→ Paid more
2. Learning skills early is?
→ Investing in yourself
3. Skills have the trait that?
→ No one can take them, they improve with use
4. Nice handwriting can later help you?
→ Write cards/signs for money
5. The more you use a skill, the?
→ Better you get

🎯 Real-life mission

Pick a skill you want to be good at and practice it 15 minutes today.
Open the interactive app →

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