Cause+and+Effect

Cause and Effect Graphic Organizers: This website has three different graphic organizers that can help students practice writing cause and effect sentences. http://www.havefunteaching.com/reading-worksheets/cause-and-effect

Teaching cause and effect by using Alexander and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day as it has lots of cause and effect situations in it. The students then come up with cause and effect situations of their own by folding a paper in half and completing statements like: I __so__ ie.

I won $1000 so I went on a shopping spree.

__because__ ie.

My tire is flat because I rode over glass that was in the street.

Teaching cause and effect by reading "Hooway For Wodney Wodent" It is full of cause and effect situations. Then the students create some effects of their own to go with my causes written on sentence strips. The next day the high points are hit again and use the same sentence strip activity this time with effects written on them and the students had to come up with a cause.