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 24 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 the board was right to end half-time working.
State your position
Use the minute
Answer the families' objection
LessonPrint · D4.1.3-5 · Set 24 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Take a Side and Show Your Work
Set 24. 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 ending half-time working, using the board minute and answering the objection that families depend on the wage.
More practice for D4.1.3-5
Make an argument using claims and evidence from several sources.