Cause and Effect

Study cause and effect in both literature and informational text with a lesson designed for several different reading levels. After kids review the concept of cause and effect, they read an article or story and note the causes and...

Examine the events of Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary with a straightforward worksheet. The page focuses on the events of the story, and in particular on cause and effect. For ten events in the story, either the cause or effect is...

Challenge scholars to show what they know about the reading comprehension skill, cause and effect. Readers examine situations—focusing on signal words—to write cause and effect sentences. 

What happened first? What happened next? To distinguish between cause and effect, between the "why" and the "what" learners are directed to ask these two questions. 

Explore the folklore of Asia and the South Pacific with this language arts instructional activity series. Complementing a reading of Catching the Sun: Tales from Asia by Jan M. Mike, this resource supports learners with understanding...

Learners complete a cause and effect sentence in this cause and effect worksheet, students. They work on producing ten answers.

The baby woke up and cried/The telephone rang loudly. Mother bought new crayons/We drew pictures all day. Which sentence represents the cause and which one is the effect? Fifty-six cards offer learners practice identifying the cause and...

Make sure your pupils can hit the target when analyzing cause and effect by practicing with this instructional activity. On each arrow, pupils write a cause of an event in a story, and on each bullseye, they write the effect.

Catch the attention of your class by holding a ball and asking your learners what will happen if you let the ball go. Now that they're thinking of possible effects, introduce them to the day's topic: cause and effect. Present sentences...

Cause and effect relationships are analyzed through reading If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Children describe cause and effect relationships as they appear in the story by writing them on sentence strips. The PowerPoint used in this lesson...