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 5 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: How fast did the valley change?
Compelling: Did the council serve the villages?
Compelling: Who ended up in the workhouse?
Compelling: How reliable is the modern account?
A.Supporting: What did the 1889 poster promise?
B.Supporting: What do the 1850 trade counts show?
C.Supporting: Which records does the author cite?
D.Supporting: What reasons does the register give?
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
Compelling: Was the railway worth it?
Compelling: What did the canal company do next?
Compelling: Who did the railway serve?
Compelling: Could ordinary people stop it?
A.Supporting: What happened to the 1844 petition?
B.Supporting: Why did it cut its charges?
C.Supporting: What did a third class fare cost?
D.Supporting: How many wharf families lost work?
LessonPrint · D1.4.3-5 · Set 5 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Small Questions Serve Big Ones
Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Compelling: How fast did the valley change? — B (Supporting: What do the 1850 trade counts show?) 2. Compelling: Did the council serve the villages? — A (Supporting: What did the 1889 poster promise?) 3. Compelling: Who ended up in the workhouse? — D (Supporting: What reasons does the register give?) 4. Compelling: How reliable is the modern account? — C (Supporting: Which records does the author cite?)
2.1. Compelling: Was the railway worth it? — D (Supporting: How many wharf families lost work?) 2. Compelling: What did the canal company do next? — B (Supporting: Why did it cut its charges?) 3. Compelling: Who did the railway serve? — C (Supporting: What did a third class fare cost?) 4. Compelling: Could ordinary people stop it? — A (Supporting: What happened to the 1844 petition?)
More practice for D1.4.3-5
Explain how the smaller questions add up to an answer to the big one.