Leveled Readings / Tinker v. Des Moines
Tinker v. Des Moines
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
Adapted · about grade 4
Students and teachers still have free speech rights when they walk into school.
Adapted · about grade 7
Students and teachers do not give up their constitutional rights to free speech or expression when they enter school.
Adapted · about grade 10
It can hardly be argued that students or teachers lose their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.