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.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

Tap into your students’ creativity by challenging them to create an infographic using content from their reading!

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Use this short story with comprehension questions to help your students practice identifying cause and effect relationships in a fictional text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Signal Cause and Effect.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Signal Cause and Effect.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

What happened and why? Match the events in cause-and-effect pairs in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet!

Let this worksheet cause you to develop your cause-and-effect skills!

Trace the steps behind a natural phenomenon with this third- through fifth-grade cause-and-effect reading worksheet!

Discover how events are related to their outcomes in this worksheet!