3rd - 8th Grade Cause and Effect Worksheets

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

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

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

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

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

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

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

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

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

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.

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