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 5 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.
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 was the main obstacle the government expected?
2. What does the white paper not tell you?
LessonPrint · D2.His.11.3-5 · Set 5 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What It Takes for Granted
Set 5. 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. Materials and labour remain scarce and must be allocated. 2. It does not tell you whether 300,000 homes a year were built.
More practice for D2.His.11.3-5
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