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.
Set 13 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
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.
Extract From a Parliamentary Debate
An extract from the official report of a debate in Parliament on the housing proposals, 1946.
THE DEBATE ON HOUSING
Member for a northern city: my constituents live four to a room.
Member for a rural county: our villages are given nothing in this paper.
Minister: the allocation must go where the destruction was worst.
Member for a coastal town: private builders could work faster.
The House divided: 310 for the proposals, 246 against.
1. Why did the rural member object?
2. What does the extract not tell you?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
City Council Housing Report
A report presented to a city council's housing committee in 1950.
PROGRESS ON THE HOUSING PROGRAMME
Homes completed since 1946: 4,180.
Families still on the waiting list: 11,600.
Average wait for a family of five: seven years.
Two sites were delayed by a shortage of bricks.
The committee recommends building upward on cleared land.
1. What does the report not tell you?
2. Was the programme keeping pace with need?
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Answer key — What It Takes for Granted
Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Because the villages are given nothing in this paper. 2. It does not tell you which members changed their minds during the debate.
2.1. It does not tell you what conditions the waiting families were living in. 2. No. 4,180 homes were completed against 11,600 families still waiting.
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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