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Identify and Write About Cause and Effect Relationships

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students write news reports about current issues. In this writing skills lesson, students report about the weight epidemic in the United States as they focus on fast food consumption and how it relates to poor health.
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Halloween Literature Unit: Pumpkin Patch Unit Project

For Teachers K - 1st
Students simulate an agriculture project. In this sequencing lesson, students observe their classroom pumpkin patch, make journal entries, and predict how the pumpkins will grow. They discuss as a class how to keep their pumpkins safe...
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Soil Management

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine different opinions on soil management. In this soil management instructional activity, 4th graders use a variety of resources to research how agriculture and the environment are related. They investigate cause and...
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Lesson 5: Red Herrings

For Teachers 6th Standards
A red herring isn't just a fish! Identify the clues that an author makes in a book to mislead the reader and make predictions accordingly. Have your class discuss how it feels to be tricked as a reader and about making wrong predictions....
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Cause and Effect with "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore reasoning by reading a book with their classmates. In this cause and effect lesson, 4th graders read the children's story Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and discuss the story elements, characters and plot....
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Friendly Letter Format

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Westward Ho instructional activity, students write a friendly letter and fill out a cause and effect chart for the story Westward Ho. Students complete 7 rows in the chart.
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Cause and Effect Worksheet

For Students 4th - 6th
In this cause and effect worksheet, students list the causes of the effect of a large group of lights, then write the effect, and 3-4 detailed sentences about what they observed. Students complete 2 pages.
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Cause and Effect

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this cause and effect worksheet, students explore the term cause and effect. Students read to find out cause and effect signal words and reasons why cause and effect is important in writing. Students read a cause and effect...
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Historical Effects

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine how events affect characters in the text The Watson's Go to Birmingham--1963.  In this historical effects instructional activity, 5th graders read from the book and complete a worksheet. Students discuss racism...
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Cause and Effect Relationships in Myths

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the myth Why the Cat Purrs and point out the cause and effect relationships in the myth. In this cause and effect lesson plan, 4th graders write a short paragraph about why the cat purrs.
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Implicit Cause and Effect Relationships

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Cause and effect relationships can be found in both fiction and non-fiction texts. As they read the book, The Planets by Gail Gibbons, learners keep an eye out for cause and effect relationships. They chart all of the causes and effects...
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Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this cause and effect worksheet, students fill out a graphic organizer with the causes on the left and the effects on the right. Students fill in 5 causes and effects.
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Lesson Five: Review Cause and Effect, Draw Conclusions, Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review the concepts of compare and contrast, drawing conclusions, and cause and effect. In this literary elements lesson, 3rd graders write a paragraph that compares and contrasts the past to the present. They show cause...
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Using Details From the Text To Identify Cause and Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners word in groups to come up with cause and effect situations based on texts they are reading. In this cause and effect lesson plan, students record these in their literary response journals.
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Story Time

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders watch soap operas online.  For this English lesson, 9th graders explore the story elements of the soap opera.  Students write a journal on their own interpretations of characters. 
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Evaluating the Options: A Conversation with the President

For Students 2nd - 12th
In this presidential history worksheet, students complete the provided graphic organizer where they list arguments for and against invasion as well as the decision regarding historical invasion.
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Weapons of World War I Worksheet

For Students 8th - 11th
In this World War I worksheet, students examine a weapons timeline and respond to 5 short answer questions. Students then read 2 articles about airplane dogfights in war and respond to 3 short answer questions.
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Frog and Toad All Year: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Frog and Toad All Year and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including cause and effect, drawing conclusions, predicting, and character.
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Click Clack Moo Cows That Type: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Click Clack Moo Cows That Type and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including genre, cause and effect, inferring, and predicting.
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Ah, Music!: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comprehension skills learning exercise, students read the book Ah, Music! and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including note taking, locating information, theme, speculating, and cause and...
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The Bee: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book The Bee and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including graphic aids, compare and contrast, sequencing, and cause and effect.  
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Serious Farm: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension skills activity, students read the book Serious Farm and complete comprehension activities. Students complete activities such as plot, cause and effect, summarizing, drawing conclusions, and compare and contrast.
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Chain of Events Graphic Organizer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
For this cause and effect worksheet, students use the blank graphic organizer to list a chain of 6 events.
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Cause and Effect

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate cause and effect. In this cause and effect lesson, 3rd graders read a story and determine what are the causes and effects. Students match sentence strips to the make the correct cause and effect sentence....