Constitution Day Bill of Rights Booklet, K-2: Ten Amendments, One Page Each
Ten pages. One amendment each. Every one of them exists because something happened to somebody, and this book starts there instead of with the definition.
By the end of this
- Your child can name two of the five freedoms in the First Amendment out loud
- Your child can point to the thing in a picture that a rule is protecting
Your child is ready for this if they
- Sits through a short read-aloud
- Colors and circles an answer
- Does not need to read on their own
That list matters more than the age we printed on it. You know which of the two is true of your child.
The grown-up reads the strip out loud. Your child colors the picture, circles the answer, and draws what comes next. The answer is printed on the page, so nobody is guessing.
Every amendment in this book began as a complaint. Somebody was jailed for printing, taxed for a church they did not attend, searched without cause, or made to feed soldiers in their own kitchen. The Bill of Rights is the list of things that had already gone wrong.
What is inside
- 01The First Amendment — Five Freedoms
- 02The Second Amendment — Ready in a Minute
- 03The Third Amendment — Whose Barn Is It?
- 04The Fourth Amendment — Ask First
- 05The Fifth Amendment — You Do Not Have To
- 06The Sixth Amendment — Not Far Away
- 07The Seventh Amendment — Who Decides?
- 08The Eighth Amendment — Is It Fair?
- 09The Ninth Amendment — Not On The List
- 10The Tenth Amendment — Near and Far
Standards alignment, for a portfolio or a state filing
2 alignments. Copy what your state asks for and ignore the rest — this is here for the paperwork, not for the teaching.
| Framework | Code | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| C3 | D2.Civ.1.K-2 | |
| CCSS-ELA | RI.2.1 |