You will learn how to use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.

This tutorial focuses on creating graphic organizers for a variety of purposes. It presents the following types of organizers, their uses, and the format of each: the Cornell method, charting method, cause and effect organizers, flow...

This lesson introduces transition words and how they can improve writing in a video, and then provides a slide show which lists of transition words that show contrast, addition. illustration, and cause and effect. It also offers a link...

English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of cause-effect relationships and drawing conclusions.

What is your favorite Dr. Seuss story? Web English Teacher may be offering you resources to teach it right here! Also contains links to biographical information.

Taken from "Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techmiques," the information on this website provides advice on how to read, understand, analyze, and write expository texts.

Consisting of twenty-six video lectures taught by Professor Thomas O'Brien, this course focuses on the causes and effects of modern revolutions from the English Civil War of the 17th century to the Iranian Revolution at the end of the...

Many different kinds of organisms live in water. Excess nutrients can cause over-abundant growth of some organisms living in water and non-point source pollution is a major threat to water supplies in the United States. In this lesson...

Eight slides introducing different types of transition words including similarity, contrast, addition, illustration, and cause and effect words.

Pre-reading activities can engage student interest, activate prior knowledge, or pre-teach potentially difficult concepts and vocabulary. They also offer a great opportunity to introduce comprehension components such as cause and effect,...

English Works site has suggestions on how to write an essay to convey helpful information. This site offers examples of eight different types of essays and graphic organizers.

A history of immigration timeline, which discusses and illustrates periods of U.S. immigration history, pre-1790 through 2000.

Provides a wealth of interactive exercises dealing mainly with the structuring of sentences in different kinds of academic writing.