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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.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 15 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.

Take a Side and Show Your Working

D4.1.3-5

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Write your answer. Use the checklist.

1.Argue whether assisted passages abroad were a good policy.
  • State your position
  • Use the ledger
  • Say who gained and who lost
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 Working

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.A position on assisted passages abroad, using the ledger and stating who gained and who lost.
  2. 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.

Teaching this next? Take a Side and Show Your Working is the 50-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D4.1.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.