Cause and Effect: Worksheets with Practice Passages, Poster, and Craftivity

Do your students struggle with differentiating between the cause and the effect? Keep your students engaged as they learn to identify cause and effect relationships within sentences and reading passages with this set of four worksheets and optional craftivity! This is a print-and-go resource that progresses in difficulty. Students will practice identifying cause-and-effect relationships within sentences and six reading passages. The reading passages feature three fiction stories and three nonfiction passages.

Here's what you'll get!

• POSTER: The instructional poster explains how the cause always happens first, and the effect happens next, much like you blow a bubble first, and then the bubble pops next.

• WORKSHEETS: On the first two worksheets, students will read fourteen sentences and identify the cause and effect within each sentence. On the next two worksheets, students will read six short reading passages and identify the cause-and-effect relationship highlighted in the passage.

If you want, you can stop right there! Or, you may choose to move on and have your students use their worksheet answers to assemble the follow-up activity!

• CRAFTIVITY: Students transfer the cause and effect relationships they identified to the gumballs (cause statements) and splatters (effect statements). Next, students color and cut out their images and glue them to a sheet of construction paper.

• STUDENT-FRIENDLY DIRECTIONS are included so that you can place the directions under your document camera, and students can refer to them as they complete the project.

• ANSWER KEYS

• TEACHER NOTES

• TPT DIGITAL EASEL VERSION- This is a paperless version that can be completed on a device. It included the same six passages as the print version of the craftivity. Students read each passage and then type the cause and effect relationship into text boxes.

I designed this activity to help my students understand the relationships between causes and effects. After completing this activity, students have a visual connection in their schema that will hopefully allow them to remember how to identify causes and effects. (I stress to my students that they cannot just look at the order the statements occur in the paragraphs!! They have to ASK THEMSELVES, "Which HAPPENED first?")

Check out the PREVIEW!

Here's what teachers like you had to say about using these resources with their students:

⭐️ Audrey N. said, "I love that this resource has short texts for students to find the cause and effect while also having a craft/interactive piece that you can also bring in with your students to help them better understand cause and effect."

⭐️ Miss Patton's Class said, "My class loved this!!!!!!! I loved how you provided passages of cause and effect!"

⭐️ Crystal M. said, "My Tier II teacher RTi students loved making this craftivity! They said it helped them understand cause/effect a lot better than just a typical worksheet!"

⭐️ Skyler H. said, "Your craftivities have truly challenged my students! I also get to see a lot of great "ah-ha" moments!"

Check out my other cause-and-effect resources:

Cause and Effect PowerPoint (with a companion handout)

Cause and Effect: Targeted Tri-folds

Cause and Effect: I have… Who has…?

Cause and Effect Worksheets with Graphic Organizers

Cause and Effect Partner Plays for grades 2-3

Cause and Effect Partner Plays for grades 4-5

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