Cause and Effect Texts for Teaching Text Structure

Cause and effect articles! This packet includes everything you need to introduce students to the text structure of cause and effect in expository texts. You'll find 11 texts with a wide variety of before, during, and after reading activities.

Texts (text-dependent questions and activities included)

What Is A Tsunami?

Surviving the Winter

Raising a Stink About Stinkbugs

The Reason for a Rainbow

Mysterious Milk Sickness

Invasive Species

Synthesizing Information activity

Great Peshtigo Fire

Writing Sentences to Show Cause and Effect

Forgotten Fruits

Fairy Tale Causes and Effects (activity)

Water Pollution

Blizzard Warning (NEW!)

Bah, Humbug: How a Book Changed Christmas Culture (NEW!)

Now part of a text structure bundle:

Text Structure Bundle

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Compare and Contrast Texts

Description Texts for Teaching Text Structure

Problem and Solution Texts for Teaching Text Structure

Text Structure Card Match and Centers

Digital Texts

Informational Text: Invasive Species