Write It for a Stranger is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on presenting a summary beyond the classroom, aligned to Common Core standard D4.3.3-5. 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.
Set 2 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
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.
Write It for a Stranger
D4.3.3-5
NameDate
Write your answer. Use the checklist.
1.Write a talk opening on whether the mills or the harbour made the region.
Open with your claim
Promise your evidence
Keep it to two sentences
2.Write a museum label for the emigration ledger, for visitors who know nothing about it.
Say what the ledger is
Say what it shows
Say who kept it and when
LessonPrint · D4.3.3-5 · Set 2 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Write It for a Stranger
Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.
1.A talk opening with a claim about the mills or the harbour and a promise of the evidence to come.
2.A museum label for the emigration ledger saying what it is, what it shows about passages, and that an agent kept it in 1885.
More practice for D4.3.3-5
Share arguments and explanations beyond the classroom, on paper and on screen.
Teaching this next? Write It for a Stranger is the 50-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.