Taking What You Need From a Source is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on gathering relevant information from sources, aligned to Common Core standard D3.1.3-5. 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.
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Taking What You Need From a Source
D3.1.3-5
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Look at the source, then answer the questions.
1.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
County Election Poster
A poster printed for a candidate in the county council election, 1889.
VOTE FOR JAMES OKONKWO
For clean water in every village.
For a school within walking distance of every child.
For repair of the county roads.
Your rates should be spent where you live.
Polling on 12 January.
1. Name one other promise on the poster.
2. When is polling?
3. What does the candidate promise about schools?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Petition Against the Railway
A petition sent to Parliament in 1844 by canal workers and boat owners.
To the honourable members,
We are boatmen and wharf workers of this valley.
The proposed railway will take the coal and corn we carry.
Two hundred families live by the canal.
We ask that the line be refused, or that work be found for us.
Signed by 84 hands.
1. Why did the boatmen oppose the railway?
2. How many people signed?
3. Who sent this petition?
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Answer key — Taking What You Need From a Source
Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Clean water in every village. 2. 12 January. 3. A school within walking distance of every child.
2.1. Because it would take the coal and corn they carried on the canal. 2. 84 hands signed it. 3. Boatmen and wharf workers of the valley.
More practice for D3.1.3-5
Gather what you need from several sources, choosing each for a reason.