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What It Takes for Granted is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on inferring audience and purpose from a source, aligned to Common Core standard D2.His.11.3-5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 23 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. 23 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.

What It Takes for Granted

D2.His.11.3-5

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Look at the source, then answer the questions.

1.Look at the source, then answer the questions.

Letters to a National Newspaper

Three letters printed on the correspondence page of a national newspaper in 1951. YOUR CORRESPONDENTS WRITE Sir: my family has waited six years. The figures mean nothing to us. Sir: the councils build too slowly. Let private firms compete. Sir: the villages are forgotten while the cities are rebuilt. The editor notes that all three writers gave their addresses. Letters may be shortened for space.

  1. 1. What do these three letters have in common?
  2. 2. What does the page not tell you?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.

A Contested National History

An extract from a national history published in 2011. This is a SECONDARY work making a causal claim other historians reject. REBUILDING: WHAT ACTUALLY DECIDED IT The author argues that shortages, not politics, set the pace of rebuilding. She points to the broadcast admitting bricks and timber ran short. Critics reply that the choice to use councils slowed the work. The author concedes she cannot separate the two causes with certainty. She rests her case on the quarterly figures the minister promised.

  1. 1. How confident is the author in her own claim?
  2. 2. What does this extract not tell you?

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Answer key — What It Takes for Granted

Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Each is dissatisfied with how the rebuilding is going. 2. It does not tell you how many letters were not printed.
  2. 2.1. Not entirely: she concedes she cannot separate the two causes with certainty. 2. It does not tell you what the quarterly figures actually showed.

More practice for D2.His.11.3-5

Work out who a source was made for and why, from the source itself.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.His.11.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.