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What Had Happened?

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
For this ESL conversation starter worksheet, students work in partners to read each of 16 situations. Students try to guess what happened immediately before. Then the partners read the cause.
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Writing
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Text Messaging Tales

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading and writing worksheet, students read the text messages sent between 2 friends. Students complete a 4 part story showing what happens in between each set of text messages.
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Cause and Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
For this graphic organizer worksheet, learners complete a cause and effect web about eating healthy. Students write 6 different effects of eating healthy.
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Cause and Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
For this elementary writing worksheet, students investigate cause and effect. Students complete three boxes "If....", and three ovals "then..." When complete, the worksheet will show three cause-and-effect sentences about a story.
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The World Goes Bananas

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers comprehend the causes and effects of inequality and social injustice. They explore the effects of globalization and trade between countries. Students discuss the hidden social and environmental costs which often lie behind...
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Cause and Effect with the Treasure of Green Lake

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students, after reading the book, "Holes," answer questions about the story's plot, make decisions about game play that involve cause and effect relationships and utilize problem-solving skills and hand-eye coordination to navigate a...
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Chair Reactions

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine the evolution of the plot in the novel holes by looking at cause and effect relationships. Using the provided worksheet, students link events in the story and explain how they effected other events and relationships in...
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Chain Reactions

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a picture collage showing the cause and effect of events in the novel Holes. Given a set of pictures from the film adaptation, students place them in sequential order. They write a brief summary of the events and what...
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Harriet The Spy

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the style of diary writing as its own genre of literature. They read Harriet The Spy in order to have a text for this literature study. Students use the skill of prediction to preview the story, and then...
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Using "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears" to Teach Cause and Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discuss cause and effect relationships and the chain reaction involved before listening to the story "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears". Students create flow charts to show the chain reactions of causes and effects in the...
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Cause and Effect

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify cause and effect relationships in a short story. After reading a short story, they participate in a discussion of how one event in a story can lead to several others. Students are then paired for a matching task that...
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Getting Down and Dirty: An Exploration of the 1930's

For Teachers K - 8th
Students complete an exploration of the 1930s. Using artwork and primary source documents, they compare, contrast and identify cause and effect relationships in the events of the decade. They discover how the events then affect people...
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Understanding Cause and Effect using A Sound of Thunder

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils listen to a short story, A Sound of Thunder, and retell parts of the story which is about time travel. They respond to the story by writing cause/effect outcomes about the ecosystem using a handout.
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Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald Unit Plan

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students read Joyce McDonald's, Swallowing Stones while investigating the literary elements used in the writing. They define a large number of vocabulary words to be applied when reading. Finally, they write a persuasive essay.
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Cause and Effect SDAIE Lesson

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read two Mexican folktales and discuss cause and effect. They draw a cause and effect relationship from one of the stories.
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Who Caused What?

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine cause and effect in real-life reading selections. They read newspaper articles, headlines, and picture captions, identifying if they are the cause or the effect.
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Out of the Dust 3

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners read the novel, Out of the Dust, and complete a cause and effect chart and a character chart. When the book is completed, they answer review questions.
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"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs": DRA

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in a directed reading of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," doing word work, comprehension activities, and presentations.
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Consequences of Garbage

For Teachers 1st
First graders consider the problem of too much garbage in America. In this garbage use lesson, 1st graders discuss ways to decrease garbage in the United States and complete a coloring sheet. 
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Cookies and Cream

For Teachers K
Students listen to stories and identify the cause and effect situations in each. In this cause and effect lesson, students read the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and then make cookies and ice cream. Students identify the changes they...
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Cause and Effect II

For Students 4th - 5th
In this cause and effect worksheet, students read the sentences and identify the cause in the sentences. Students complete 10 online questions.
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Modern World Traditions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate why traditions fade as time moves on and represent the fading traditions in a visual manner. In this traditions instructional activity, students read the article 'Looking for My Prince Charming' by Shalmali Pal....
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Parents and Teen Hardships

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners analyze the cause and effects of fading traditions and explore the parent teen relationships through poetry. In this past analysis instructional activity, students complete a cause and effect worksheet about a related movie....
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Freckle Juice- Lesson 6

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read Freckle Juice.  In this comprehension instructional activity, students complete a story map and discuss cause and effect based on readings from Freckle Juice.