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A Claim About Causes is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on summarising the central claim of a secondary work, aligned to Common Core standard D2.His.17.3-5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask 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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A Claim About Causes

D2.His.17.3-5

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1.How would you summarise the book in one sentence?
  • A.Britain rebuilt after the war
  • B.Governments make promises
  • C.Shortages rather than political choices set the pace, though the two cannot be fully separated
2.What do her critics say instead?
  • A.That the figures are forged
  • B.That the choice to use councils slowed the work
  • C.That the war never happened
3.Why is a causal claim harder than a claim about emphasis?
  • A.Emphasis is invisible
  • B.Two causes acting at once cannot easily be separated
  • C.Causes are longer to write
4.Why is 'bricks and timber ran short' not the central claim?
  • A.It is untrue
  • B.It is too short
  • C.It is the evidence she uses for the claim
5.The author concedes she cannot separate the two causes with certainty. What does that do?
  • A.It limits her claim so a reader can see where it stops
  • B.It changes the subject
  • C.It withdraws the claim
6.What does she rest her case on?
  • A.The poll
  • B.The quarterly figures the minister promised
  • C.The trade agreement
7.A reader disagrees with her. What should they produce?
  • A.Evidence from the figures that weighs towards the other cause
  • B.A stronger opinion
  • C.A newer book
8.What is the central claim of the 2011 national history?
  • A.That shortages, not politics, set the pace of rebuilding
  • B.That the white paper was laid in 1946
  • C.That bricks ran short

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Answer key — A Claim About Causes

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  1. 1.Shortages rather than political choices set the pace, though the two cannot be fully separated
  2. 2.That the choice to use councils slowed the work
  3. 3.Two causes acting at once cannot easily be separated
  4. 4.It is the evidence she uses for the claim
  5. 5.It limits her claim so a reader can see where it stops
  6. 6.The quarterly figures the minister promised
  7. 7.Evidence from the figures that weighs towards the other cause
  8. 8.That shortages, not politics, set the pace of rebuilding

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.His.17.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.