How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...

Don't forget to read between the lines! Educators learn tips and activities to help scholars learn to infer to increase reading comprehension. Activities suggested include think alouds, backwards words, and who's who. the packet includes...

Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Using the book "When I Grow Up", this lesson plan aids students in learning about cause and effect relationships and the words that signify them.

Contains plans for five lessons that teach about cause and effect relationships using Trinka Hakes Noble's books about Jimmy and his boa constrictor. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on cause and effect intended to improve reading comprehension. Students learn to identify causes based on effects and effects based on causes. Students also use explicit information...

Instilling a strong understanding of cause and effect will increase students' reading comprehension skills. By acting out cause and effect situations, students will deepen the foundation of this important concept.

This learning module provides an explanation of the cause and effect text structure. An explanation of the cause and effect text structure is provided, and a video tutorial lesson [0:53] provides additional examples to supplement the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on cause and effect. Young scholars learn to use signal words to identify cause and effect relationships and to describe possible effects when given a cause in fiction. Students also...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on cause and effect where students learn signal words to identify cause and effect relationships and then examine those relationships in historical fiction with Pink and Say by...

Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section helps students identify cause and effect in literature.

Strategy to help students recognize cause and effect relationships provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes simple instructions and a visual.

Simple and effective method for introducing primary students to the concept of cause and effect in literature.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify effects, causes, and the relationship between them. Lessons are based on the books Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes, Why Do You Cry?:...

This graphic organizer can be used as a reading response when working with informational text. Students will write two different effects and record multiple causes for each effect.

Learn how to identify the cause and effect relationships within a text by using a list of guiding questions.

After reading the definitions and examples of cause and effect, 3rd graders complete a cause and effect scavenger hunt through a text to complete a activity.

This Cause and Effect graphic organizer helps students organize information from a text they are reading.

This article provides tips for using nonfiction with guided reading and independent reading. The following strategies are shared: ways to help kids select "just right" nonfiction books; lessons to use with nonfiction in guided reading...

Printable, fifty-five page PDF file of a staff development manual containing strategies for teaching reading. Includes chapters on vocabulary, main ideas and supporting details, author's purpose, chronological order, plot and conflict...

A Grade 5 literature study unit for the novel "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson. The concepts covered include cause and effect, character, genre, plot, predicting, and theme.

This PDF resource provides a blank cause and effect graphic organizer for healthy eating. Requires Adobe Reader.

This PDF resource allows students to practice identifying what part of a sentence is the effect (what happened) and what part of the sentence is the cause (why it happened). Requires Adobe Reader.

Students are asked to be detectives while they read and to look for the cause/effect sentences in the paragraphs. In this lesson plan, students read paragraphs and answer questions about it by either typing in their responses or...