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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.

Workhouse Admission Register

A page from the county workhouse register, 1847, kept by the record office. ADMITTED, MARCH 1847 Hall, Sarah, 42, widow, no work since the mill shut. Hall, Thomas, 9, son. Dunn, Patrick, 55, labourer, canal work ended. Ware, Ellen, 28, no settled home. Discharged this month: 3 persons.

  1. 1. Why might canal work have ended by 1847?
  2. 2. What work had Patrick Dunn done?
  3. 3. How old was Thomas Hall?
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. 1. How many people signed?
  2. 2. Why did the boatmen oppose the railway?
  3. 3. Who sent this petition?

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Answer key — Taking What You Need From a Source

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The railway had opened in 1846 and carried goods the canal once carried. 2. He was a labourer on canal work. 3. Thomas Hall was 9.
  2. 2.1. 84 hands signed it. 2. Because it would take the coal and corn they carried on the canal. 3. Boatmen and wharf workers of the valley.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D3.1.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.