[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify effects, causes, and the relationship between them. Lessons are based on the books Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes, Why Do You Cry?:...

Students are asked to be detectives while they read and to look for the cause/effect sentences in the paragraphs. In this lesson, students read paragraphs and answer questions about it by either typing in their responses or selecting...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a flipchart designed for grades K-3 to introduce the concept of cause and effect. It contains various activities for students to gain practice with the skill.

This learning module defines cause and effect, provides examples, and offers links to practice exercises.

This PDF resource allows students to practice identifying what part of a sentence is the effect (what happened) and what part of the sentence is the cause (why it happened). Requires Adobe Reader.

After reading "A Not-So-Glorious," Victory, which is included on this page, have your students practice identifying cause and effect using the printable worksheet.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains the Learning Focus Lesson Format for cause & effect. It contains an activator, teacher modeling, graphic organizers, guided practice, independent practice, and summarizer. It...

This interactive worksheet provides 10 questions: each includes a reading passage which students read and select the patterns of organization used in each passage. RI.11-12.3 Text development

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches the comprehension skill of cause and effect has web links to practice cause and effect, uses a word web to build background knowledge before reading the selection story and it...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It can be used as both a read-aloud exercise...

This resource provides excerpts from Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Students will practice standardized test-taking skills related to context clues, reading comprehension, and cause and effect.

Students read the book Because a Little Bug Went Ka-CHOO! By Rosetta Stone (aka Dr. Seuss) to learn how a little thing can turn into a big story. Then students practice by writing stories of their own where a little cause has a big...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This article shares information about the effect of adding certain species into non-native environments. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the devastating effects from a volcanic eruption in the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Sound waves are discussed in this realistic fiction article. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares that information about water in the world and its most important role of distributing the heat around the world. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on identifying character traits in characters. There are plenty of opportunities for assessment using Activotes. In addition there is practice with vocabulary, phonics, and...

The America that greeted the first Europeans was, thus, far from an empty wilderness. It is now thought that as many people lived in the Western Hemisphere as in Western Europe at that time -- about 40 million. Estimates of the number of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational report describes a water main, causes of water main breaks and the effects a water main break in New York City.This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...