Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer
Students place a cause in the center and organize its effects around it. Use this graphic organizer to discuss how one event can lead to several outcomes.

- Grades
- Grades 2–4
- Pages
- 1
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA
- Topic
- Cause and Effect, Cause and effect organizers
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
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This graphic organizer can help your students organize the effects of a given cause. It's a great tool to use in any cause and effect lesson.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify a central cause in a topic or text
Record several distinct effects linked to that cause
Explain the directional relationship between cause and outcomes
Teaching tips
State the cause as a complete event before filling effect boxes.
Check that every effect answers what happened because of the center event.
Skills covered
Causal reasoning
Information organization
Relationship mapping
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