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 25 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.
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. Who published this poll and when?
2. Why would a company publish what adults think should come first?
2.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. When was this published, and what kind of work is it?
2. What is the author trying to establish?
LessonPrint · D2.His.6.3-5 · Set 25 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Who Wrote It and What For
Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A polling company published it in 1947. 2. To show what the public wanted put first among housing, food, schools and roads.
2.1. In 2011, and it is a secondary work making a causal claim other historians reject. 2. That shortages rather than politics set the pace of rebuilding.
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.