Name ______________________________________________________ Date _____________________________

Cause and Effect

Cause Effect

Graphic Organizers for Primary Comprehension ©Teacherspayteachers/store/barbiew66

Name ______________________________________________________ Date _____________________________

Cause and Effect

Cause Effect

Graphic Organizers for Primary Comprehension ©Teacherspayteachers/store/barbiew66

 Cause and Effect
Common Core Learning Standard: RL.K.3,RL.1.3

Goal: The student will identify cause and effect relationships within the text.

Teaching point: Sometimes the events in a story are caused by something else in the story. The cause
is what made something else happen. It can be another event, a character’s feelings or a time, for example.
We say , “Something happened because of something else.”

Introduce the GO: In this GO, we write/draw the event that caused something on the right because
that is the event that happened first, or the feeling or time that was already there. We write the event that
it caused on the right because that is the event that comes after. This is called the effect. The arrow
shows that the first event, feeling or time, CAUSED the effect to happen. Cause and effect.

Introduce text: ___________________________________________

Set purpose for reading: When we read, we will look for an event that is caused by something else.
Let’s look for the cause and the effect.
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Teach early readers to use specific reading comprehension skills such as making inferences, identifying story elements,
describing characters, and making connections or seeing relationships among ideas like cause and effect and main idea and
details with these direct teaching activities that can be used with your choice of book. Clear, easy to use graphic organizers
come with step by step lesson plans. Plans can be "read" to teach lesson, making these plans easy for the beginning teacher or
substitutes.
Most plans are common core aligned.
This collection includes graphic organizers for all of the important comprehension skills / text structures taught at the primary
level. Many GOs have differentiated versions as well, so including sudents with lower ability in the same lesson is easier.
Comprehension Skills taught:
*Compare and Contrast: Characters and Events, Information
*Characters and Setting
*(2) Character Traits (4 and 6 traits)
*(2) Cause and Effect (2 and 4 relationships)
*(2) Main Idea/Details (3 and 4 details)
*(2) Problem and Solution / Problem/Event/Solution
*Connect to Self
*Make a Text to Text Connection
*Use Clues to Make an Inference (2 styles)
*Character Changes from Beginning to End of Story
*Plot (Beg/Middle/End)
*Story Elements (Characters, Setting, Major Events)
*Use Sequence to Retell
*Form Opinion About Text and Give Reasons
*(2) Topic and Details (4 details and 6 details)
*Identify What I Knew and What I Learned
*Author’s Reasons to Support a Point
About me…..

I have been teaching for 29 years. Much of my experience has been with kindergarten and first grade. I hold a Masters in
Reading Education and have presented workshops at various conferences in New York State on the use of graphic organizers to
promote reading comprehension and writing skills. I also write for a publisher of elementary teaching materials.