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 3 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.
Government White Paper on Housing
An extract from a white paper laid before Parliament by the government in 1946.
HOUSING: THE GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS
The war destroyed or damaged four million homes.
The government proposes to build 300,000 homes a year.
Local councils, not private builders, will lead the programme.
Materials and labour remain scarce and must be allocated.
The cost will fall on taxation and on borrowing.
1. What does the white paper not tell you?
2. What was the main obstacle the government expected?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Script of a Radio Broadcast
The script of a national radio broadcast made by a government minister in 1947.
BROADCAST TO THE NATION
We promised 300,000 homes a year. We built 140,000 last year.
Bricks and timber have been harder to obtain than we expected.
I will not pretend the promise has been kept.
We ask for patience, and we will publish the figures each quarter.
Nobody in this country should live four to a room.
1. What does the broadcast not tell you?
2. Why does he echo the phrase about four to a room?
LessonPrint · D2.His.11.3-5 · Set 3 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What It Takes for Granted
Set 3. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. It does not tell you whether 300,000 homes a year were built. 2. Materials and labour remain scarce and must be allocated.
2.1. It does not tell you how listeners answered. 2. To remind listeners why the homes were promised in the first place.
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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