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 4 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.
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. Where is this extract from, and when?
2. Why is a debate recorded word for word?
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. Why would a minister broadcast a promise he had not kept?
2. Who made this broadcast and when?
LessonPrint · D2.His.6.3-5 · Set 4 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Who Wrote It and What For
Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. The official report of a debate in Parliament in 1946. 2. So the official report shows what members said and how the House divided.
2.1. To admit the promise had not been kept and ask for patience. 2. A government minister, on national radio in 1947.
More practice for D2.His.6.3-5
Describe how a source's maker shaped what the source says.
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