Should Kids Choose Their Own Bedtime

Read the topic together and let your child say the opinion and two reasons out loud first. Write each reason on a separate line, then add a closing sentence. Where a sheet has an answer key, use it to compare structure, not exact words.

Read a made-up model about music on the bus, then list reasons for and against kids picking their own bedtime and pick a side. An opinion is what you think. A reason tells why. The directions on the page read: Read the Model and the topic. Then, write reasons for and against, one on each line. Then, pick a side and write your opinion. Then, write a closing. Then, write your paragraph on lined paper with linking words.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade writing, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with opinion writing. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

CCSS W.2.1 asks second graders to introduce a topic, state an opinion, give reasons that support it, use linking words like because and also, and write a concluding statement. Each sheet scaffolds those parts with boxes, a chart or a model.

Two reasons is a good target. Ask for a reason, then ask for a second one that is different, joined with also or another reason. A short closing sentence that repeats the opinion completes the piece.

Try a chart of reasons for and against, as Should Kids Choose Their Own Bedtime and Should Kids Have Jobs at Home do, and think of reasons for both sides first. Then pick the side with the better reasons.

Ten sheets include a key with a marking guide and a model piece. The eight planners have no key, since each child picks a side. Check for an opinion, two reasons and a closing, as the checklist on the three two-page planners asks.