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 6 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.
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. What does this extract not tell you?
2. How confident is the author in her own claim?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Published Poll of Opinion
A table of results from a poll of 2,000 adults, published by a polling company in 1947.
WHAT SHOULD COME FIRST? 2,000 ADULTS ASKED
Housing ................ 41 per cent
Food supply ............ 27 per cent
Schools ................ 14 per cent
Roads .................. 9 per cent
Don't know ............. 9 per cent
Sample drawn in towns only.
1. Whose views are missing from this poll?
2. What does the poll not tell you?
LessonPrint · D2.His.11.3-5 · Set 6 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What It Takes for Granted
Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. It does not tell you what the quarterly figures actually showed. 2. Not entirely: she concedes she cannot separate the two causes with certainty.
2.1. People outside towns: the sample was drawn in towns only. 2. It does not tell you why anybody chose what they chose.
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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