Find the Cause, Find the Effect

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.

Underline the cause and effect in 10 sentences, like a frozen pond, then write 3 of your own. A cause is why something happens, and an effect is what happens because of it. The directions on the page read: In each sentence, draw one line under the cause and two lines under the effect. Then write three sentences of your own. 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.