Take a Side and Show Your Working is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on constructing an argument from claims and evidence, aligned to Common Core standard D4.1.3-5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 15 of them with 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.
D4.1.3-5
Write your answer. Use the checklist.
LessonPrint · D4.1.3-5 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
It practises constructing an argument from claims and evidence — 2 questions for Grade 3 to Grade 5, all on Common Core D4.1.3-5: Make an argument using claims and evidence from several sources. The instruction to pupils is “Write your answer. Use the checklist”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
D4.1.3-5 — D4.1.3-5, in the Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action domain for Grade 3 to Grade 5. The published standard reads: “Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
Take a Side and Show Your Working is written for Grade 3 to Grade 5, typically ages 40-41. It is one of the sheets on D4.1.3-5, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
25 versions, of which 15 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Yes. Take a Side and Show Your Working, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
Yes — “Take a Side and Show Your Working” is a 50-minute Grade 3 to Grade 5 plan for D4.1.3-5, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. Take a Side and Show Your Working is the practice that follows it.
Make an argument using claims and evidence from several sources.
Teaching this next? Take a Side and Show Your Working is the 50-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D4.1.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.