ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Cause and Effect Commotion [Pdf]
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.
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont Colleges: Writing an Argument
Brief handout describing different forms of argument for writing.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Adverb Clauses Cause and Effect Relationships
Twenty sentences where students fill in the blank with the correct adverb clause to show a cause and effect relationship. Each answer can be checked to see if it is correct.
British Library
British Library:dreamers and Dissenters: Filth and Fever
A brief account of British history where learners examine the causes and effects of filth and fever during the Victorian era in England.
Other
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Describe Text Structure
A short explanation of informational text structures. Follow links for more information on: chronological text structure, comparison and contrast text structure, cause and effect text structure, and problem and solution text structure....
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Cause and Effect Thinking Map
A graphic organizer to help determine cause and effect relationships within a text.
Other
Mrs. Dell: Cause and Effect Mini Lesson
This learning module defines cause and effect, provides examples, and offers links to practice exercises.
Quia
Quia: Cause and Effect
Identify cause and effect relationships by matching cards with a cause to cards with the effect. Correct answers are provided and a percentage score is available once the activity is complete.
Quia
Quia: Cause and Effect 2
Five sentences where students are asked to read the effect and then choose the appropriate cause. Answers can be checked after each question and a percentage grade is available at the end of the activity.
Quia
Quia: Why??? What Caused It to Happen?
Read the story of "The Three Little Pigs" and pause five times to answer cause and effect questions about the story and the characters' choices within the story. Students can see their percentage score at the end of the activity.
Quia
Quia: Fact or Opinion? Game #2 (Quiz)
Five sentences where students are asked to read the cause and then choose the appropriate effect. Answers can be checked after each question and a percentage grade is available at the end of the activity.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Cause and Effect Scavenger Hunt
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 worksheet.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Recognize Cause and Effect Relationships
Learn how to identify the cause and effect relationships within a text by using a list of guiding questions.
Other
Shsu: Cause and Effect Ii
This is a 10 question, multiple choice pretest on recognizing cause and effect.
Other
Reading Worksheets: Cause and Effect [Pdf]
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.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Cause and Effect Worksheet [Pdf]
This Cause and Effect graphic organizer helps students organize information from a text they are reading.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Compare Text Structures
This learning module focuses on comparing organizational patterns in informational texts including chronological order, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solutions. Click on each text structure for an explanation.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces cause and effect papers. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Cause and Effect Papers."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers: Organization: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses structuring an outline for a cause and effect paper. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Cause and Effect Papers: Organization."
TES Global
Blendspace: Cause and Effect
A ten-part learning module on cause and effect relationships. Lessons include links images, graphic organizers, videos, and a worksheet.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Structures
A thirty-part learning module on text structures including description, sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and cause and effect. Lessons include links to pictures, story text, informational text, videos, charts,...
TES Global
Blendspace: Cause and Effect
A sixteen-part learning module with links to images and videos about identifying cause and effect.
TES Global
Blendspace: Cause and Effect
A seven-part learning module with videos, images, and a website to build skills in recognizing cause and effect.
Other
Prezi: Nonfiction Text Structures
Slideshow examines the five most common text structures used by authors to organize nonfiction writing.