Cause and Effect Resources

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Students practice informational reading comprehension skills while learning all about the national artistic tradition of azulejo tiles!

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

Familiarize your students with clue words that help indicate cause and effect relationships.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

What are the effects of storms and other weather events? Students will create flow charts that represent the multiple effects that are a result of specific weather causes.

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

In this worksheet students will be challenged to use information from multiple sources about coral reefs.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.