How Small Questions Serve Big Ones is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on linking supporting to compelling questions, aligned to Common Core standard D1.4.3-5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 10 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
How Small Questions Serve Big Ones
D1.4.3-5
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Draw a line from each compelling question to a supporting one.
1.Draw a line from each one to its match.
Compelling: What did the canal company do next?
Compelling: Did the council serve the villages?
Compelling: Could ordinary people stop it?
Compelling: How fast did the valley change?
A.Supporting: What happened to the 1844 petition?
B.Supporting: Why did it cut its charges?
C.Supporting: What do the 1850 trade counts show?
D.Supporting: What did the 1889 poster promise?
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
Compelling: Who did the railway serve?
Compelling: How reliable is the modern account?
Compelling: Was the railway worth it?
Compelling: Who ended up in the workhouse?
A.Supporting: What did a third class fare cost?
B.Supporting: What reasons does the register give?
C.Supporting: How many wharf families lost work?
D.Supporting: Which records does the author cite?
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Answer key — How Small Questions Serve Big Ones
Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Compelling: What did the canal company do next? — B (Supporting: Why did it cut its charges?) 2. Compelling: Did the council serve the villages? — D (Supporting: What did the 1889 poster promise?) 3. Compelling: Could ordinary people stop it? — A (Supporting: What happened to the 1844 petition?) 4. Compelling: How fast did the valley change? — C (Supporting: What do the 1850 trade counts show?)
2.1. Compelling: Who did the railway serve? — A (Supporting: What did a third class fare cost?) 2. Compelling: How reliable is the modern account? — D (Supporting: Which records does the author cite?) 3. Compelling: Was the railway worth it? — C (Supporting: How many wharf families lost work?) 4. Compelling: Who ended up in the workhouse? — B (Supporting: What reasons does the register give?)
More practice for D1.4.3-5
Explain how the smaller questions add up to an answer to the big one.