Cause and Effect in History Paragraphs

Use Find the Cause, Find the Effect as a warm-up, then build the wolf chain together. The history paragraphs can be split across three days.

Chart causes and effects in history paragraphs on the cotton gin, the telegraph and the Dust Bowl. History is full of causes and effects: one event or invention can lead to big changes in how people live. The directions on the page read: Read the paragraph. In the T-chart, write two causes from the paragraph and the effect of each one. Then answer the question on the lines. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade cause and effect, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Ask why it happened, then look for signal words like because, since or due to. In the sentence Because the bus broke down, we were late for school, the broken bus is the cause.

Elk herds grew and ate young willows, so beavers lost food and dam wood, and fewer dams meant fewer ponds and wetlands. Cause and Effect Chains puts these 5 links in order.

It made growing cotton earn more money, so planters forced more enslaved people to work. The paragraph gives the numbers, about 700,000 in 1790 and more than 3 million by 1850.