Cause and Effect Sequencing Activity

Six cause-and-effect sentences come apart into cards that students rebuild around the word because, as in the dog ate food because he was hungry.
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Grades 1–3
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Updated Jul 11, 2021

Subject
Reading, ELA
Topic
Cause and Effect
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This activity is great for helping students understand cause and effect relationships. It can be used to sequence events, identify reasons why things happen, and to develop writing skills.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Match an effect to its cause

  • Join a cause and effect into one sentence with because

Teaching tips

  • The because card sits in the middle of each set, so students place the effect first and the cause after it.

Skills covered

  • Cause and effect — pairing what happened with why it happened on the cards

  • Using conjunctions — building complete because sentences from card sets

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Cause and effect

  • Conjunctions

  • Because

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