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...

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. 

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. 

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...

For this cause and effect worksheet, 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.

A practice and drill on mastering the ability to pick out cue words in a piece of informational text. Students practice recognizing cue words in conjunction with the literary element of cause and effect. Students utilize a graphic...

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...