Cause and Effect Reading Passage, Task Cards and Hands-On Activities

Description

Teach cause and effect in a hands-on way. This resource includes a reading passage, matching activity, and lessons that help students apply the skill to real texts.

Teach students the reading skill of cause and effect in an engaging, hands-on way and then help them apply it to authentic reading! In this set of reading strategy minilessons, students will make cause-and-effect connections, think about the relationship between events, and try the strategy out in task cards.

Included in this product…

• Teacher Tips Page: Teaching reading with the gradual release model
• Printable anchor chart / poster
• Mentor text list
• Concrete introduction activity directions: So Then…
• Cause-effect cards and graphic organizer for So Then… activity. Key included.
• Guided Practice: a complete text to use during read aloud or shared reading to introduce the strategy with a think-aloud. Includes guiding questions for using the strategy to help you model.
• Identifying Cause and Effect Relationship Task Cards: 3 cards at each level, 3 different levels
• 2 graphic cause and effect organizers
• Reading response sheet (scaffolded with sentence starters)
• Strategy Bookmarks

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Happy Teaching!