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 23 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. What does the extract not tell you?
2. Why did the rural member object?
2.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. What does the page not tell you?
2. What do these three letters have in common?
LessonPrint · D2.His.11.3-5 · Set 23 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What It Takes for Granted
Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. It does not tell you which members changed their minds during the debate. 2. Because the villages are given nothing in this paper.
2.1. It does not tell you how many letters were not printed. 2. Each is dissatisfied with how the rebuilding is going.
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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