Rules and Laws
- 25 pages
- Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd
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About this resource
Rule or law? This is a complete kit for telling a rule at home or school from a law in a community, built for the table where children need different amounts of support. It starts with an anchor chart: a rule is for a family or a class, a law is for everybody in a town. Children then circle the law (or the rule) in a row of three, match a situation to why we have it, write rule or law, fill in the sentence, make up a rule of their own and cut and paste onto sort mats. Every item is printed text, so a child reads or hears it and decides; there is no clip art. It comes with a tracker, a class grid and a family update, so nothing has to be written from scratch.
EVERYTHING INSIDE (25 pages)
- 10 student pages in 7 page types: Anchor Chart, Circle It, Match It, Rule or Law?, Fill In the Sentence, Make Your Own Rule, and Cut and Paste
- 54 scored items on 8 pages, every answer read from the lists, never typed by hand
- 20 different situations (10 rules and 10 laws) and 16 reasons for why we have them
- 26 cut-and-paste pieces on 3 sort mats (8 situations, 10 situations, then 8 reasons), each into two labeled boxes
- 2 answer keys, generated from the same data as the student pages
- 1 tracker (page, page type, items right, date) and 1 whole-class progress grid
- 1 team note (a hand-off page between team meetings) and 1 home page
- 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (16 observable-language starters), 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
- Start Here and a how-to-read-a-page page
The Page Types, Easiest First
Words Only, No Clip Art
There are no pictures to name. The situations are everyday ones, such as hanging up a coat or stopping at a red light. No situation is in both groups, so every item has one right answer.
General On Purpose
The laws here are the street and traffic ones children see every day, kept general and child-level. Laws are different in different places, so the answer key has a blank line for a law from your own town. There are no statutes, penalties or ages in the file.
Built For The Child Holding The Page
A big "My name" line, one short instruction, large rounded type, big answer boxes, and dots (not words or colors) to show which level a page is. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult. The file prints clean in black and white.
No Guessing The Answer
Wherever a child picks among printed spots (which tile in a row, which lettered reason, where a word sits in the box of eight, the order of the pieces on the cut strip), the position of the right answer is checked so it does not sit in the same spot three times in a row.
Type In, Or Print
The name line and every answer box are type-in fields in any PDF reader: click one, type, then save. The same goes for the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.
Who This Is For
Kindergarten through 2nd grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher building early community and citizenship vocabulary into a center, a small group or a morning work folder.
What This Is, And What It Is Not
A rules and laws worksheet set with the record-keeping around it. It is not a timed test, a screener, a clinical tool, legal advice, or a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. There is no IEP goal language or eligibility wording anywhere in the file.
