Who Wrote It and What For is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how a maker's perspective shaped a source, aligned to Common Core standard D2.His.6.3-5. 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 22 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.
Who Wrote It and What For
D2.His.6.3-5
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Look at the source, then answer the questions.
1.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. Why would a minister broadcast a promise he had not kept?
2. Who made this broadcast and when?
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. Why would a company publish what adults think should come first?
2. Who published this poll and when?
LessonPrint · D2.His.6.3-5 · Set 22 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Who Wrote It and What For
Set 22. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. To admit the promise had not been kept and ask for patience. 2. A government minister, on national radio in 1947.
2.1. To show what the public wanted put first among housing, food, schools and roads. 2. A polling company published it in 1947.
More practice for D2.His.6.3-5
Describe how a source's maker shaped what the source says.
Teaching this next? Who Wrote It and What For is the 55-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.