Take a Side and Show Your Work is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on constructing an argument from claims and evidence, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D4.1.3-5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 14 of them with different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 14 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 14 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two students have the same paper in front of them.
Take a Side and Show Your Work
D4.1.3-5
NameDate
Write your answer. Use the checklist.
1.Argue whether the owners were right to cut wages, using both sides' figures.
State your position
Use evidence from two sources
Answer the strongest objection
2.Argue whether piped water should have come before new schools.
State your position
Use the health table
Answer the other side
LessonPrint · D4.1.3-5 · Set 14 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Take a Side and Show Your Work
Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.
1.A position on whether the owners were right to cut wages, evidence from the notice and the circular, and a reply to the strongest objection.
2.A position on whether piped water should have come before new schools, using the health table and answering the other side.
More practice for D4.1.3-5
Make an argument using claims and evidence from several sources.