1. Distribute the sentence strips. 1 per participant.

What skills did you use to be able to match the text on the strip with
the appropriate label? How about those who were not able to match
the strips? What were you not able to match the strips? What are the
constrains?

 recognizing cause and effect relationships in text will help

students understand and remember what they are reading

Sample Exercises /Activities:

Cause and Effect Sentences
Read each sentence. Write each cause and effect. Grades 2 and up.
2nd through 4th Grades
Find the CauseRead each cause and write your own effect. Grades 2 and up.
2nd through 4th Grades
Cause/Effect Matching
Match the cause on the left with the effect of the right. Grade 2 and up.
2nd through 4th Grades
Write the Effect
The reverse of the worksheet above: Read each cause and write your own effect. Grade 2 and up.
2nd through 4th Grades
Cause or Effect
Tell whether the underlined words are a cause or effect. Grade 2 and up.
2nd through 4th Grades
What's the Effect
Fill in an effect for the given causes. Grades 2 and up.
2nd through 4th Grades

How to make it happen in the classroom?

Sample Exercises /Activities:
Cause and Effect Sentences
Read each sentence. Write each cause and effect. Grades 2 and up.
2nd through 4th Grades
Find the CauseRead each cause and write your own effect. Grades 2 and up.
2nd through 4th Grades
Cause/Effect Matching
Match the cause on the left with the effect of the right. Grade 2 and up.
2nd through 4th Grades
Write the Effect
The reverse of the worksheet above: Read each cause and write your own effect. Grade 2 and up.
2nd through 4th Grades
Cause or Effect
Tell whether the underlined words are a cause or effect. Grade 2 and up.
2nd through 4th Grades
What's the Effect

This is a tough skill to teach! One of the hardest skills to teach is

Main Idea. Not only is the skill really hard for some (most) students,
but it is so critical for understanding and so many other skills are
dependent on understanding that main idea.

This is a tough skill to teach! One of the hardest skills to teach is

Main Idea. Not only is the skill really hard for some (most) students,
but it is so critical for understanding and so many other skills are
dependent on understanding that main idea.

Readers make decisions or form opinions based on information they

read. When readers make an inference or draw a conclusion, they try
understand by using clues from the text and what they know from
previous experiences. The conclusion is reached after thinking about
details and facts. Thoughtful readers synthesize and evaluate
information based on prior knowledge. Readers examine an authors
conclusion and evaluate the supporting details. Readers collect and
question details in order to draw conclusions or evaluate conclusions
written by the author. They go beyond the literal meaning of text to
derive interpretative meanings.