Cause and Effect: Sentence Identification
Find causes and effects in ten sentences and underline them in two colours, following the introductory examples.
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- Grades 2–5
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- 2
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- Reading, ELA
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- Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
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Help students separate what happened from why it happened. Two introductory examples lead into ten sentences, with causes underlined in red and effects in blue. The different colours make the relationship visible, and the answer-key page supports checking or discussion of sentences that students interpreted differently.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Locate a cause within a complete sentence
- Identify the effect produced by an event
- Use sentence relationships rather than word order to distinguish cause from effect
Teaching tips
- Read each sentence once for meaning before introducing the two coloured underlines.
- Ask learners to restate one marked pair using because or so to test the relationship.
Skills covered
- Causal reasoning — readers connect an event with its result.
- Sentence analysis — relationship parts are marked within continuous text.
- Signal-word awareness — varied connectors support interpretation without a single formula.
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- Cause and effect
- Sentence relationships
- Close reading
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