Cause and

Effect
Comprehension Skill
Fourth Grade Unit 3 Week 1
Created by Kristi Waltke
 Cause and Effect
Why does the Hitting the ball
ball move? with the club
causes the ball
to move.

Causes and effects are related. An

effect is what happens. A cause
is why it happens.
 Cause and Effect
• Clue words such as because, so, and
cause sometimes signal a cause-effect
relationship.
• Sometimes you must figure
out for yourself that one thing causes
another.
• Sometimes a cause has more than one effect.
Good readers ask themselves why things
happen in a story. Asking why will
help you figure out cause and effect!

When you see the hippo in the pond,

you can ask yourself why he got in
there. He is probably in the water to
cool off.

This is cause and

effect.
Cause
The hippo was hot.
Effect
He got in the water.
 Think about the story.

Why is the stranger lying

in the road?
 Cause Effect

so the
Mr. Bailey hit
the stranger
stranger is
with his truck lying in the
road.
 Think about the story.

Why did the stranger try

to run away when he
opened his eyes?
 Cause Effect

The author
said the
stranger so he tried
looked up to run away.
with terror.
He must have
been afraid
 Think about the story.

What effect does the

stranger have on the
thermometer?
 Cause Effect

The doctor so the

uses the mercury
thermometer gets stuck
on the at the
stranger
bottom.
 Think about the story.

What happens when the

stranger blows on the
soup?
 Cause Effects
then a
draft is
The stranger
blows on the created
soup
and Mrs.
Bailey
says brr.
 Think about the story.

What are some details that

cause the reader to notice
that the stranger is special?
 Causes
Rabbits allow Effect
the stranger
close.
So we
The stranger know that
doesn’t sweat or
get tired with the
hard work. stranger is
special
The stranger blows
with all his might on a
green leaf and we
see an orange leaf in
the picture.
 Think about the story.

Since the stranger’s visit, the trees

around the Bailey’s farm stay
green for a week longer than the
other trees. Then, they change
color in one night. Why?
 Cause Effect

The stranger
so the trees
uses his around the
special cold Bailey farm
weather turn
power differently.