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 instructional activity. 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. 

Wrap-up a unit on global climate change with a lesson that examines the causes and effects of climate change. Learners fill out a chart that represents what they think causes climate change—natural and human-based—and what they think...

Help your class see the connection between events in Alex Haley's story "My Furthest-Back Person" with this awesome graphic organizer. Individuals write a brief description of 10 major plot events in a series of boxes. The first and last...

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. 

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...

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...

Students listen to a story about school in a one-room schoolhouse.  In this cause and effect lesson, 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.