Cause and Effect

Study cause and effect in both literature and informational text with a lesson plan 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 learning exercise. 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...

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. 

In this cause and effect learning exercise, students read information about cause/effect, review signal words and read an article about Indiana weather and crops. Students then answer 3 related cause/effect questions.

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...

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

Students listen to a story about school in a one-room schoolhouse.  In this cause and effect activity, students create a Venn diagram to find the similarities and differences in schools then and now. Students discuss how past events help...

Fourth graders read the book Stellaluna and cite sentences that show cause and effect in the story. In this cause and effect lesson plan, 4th graders also write sentences that show cause and effect in their own lives.

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