They can also predict what effects could take place after the photo occurs. From one photo, students can generate possible causes of what caused the photo to occur. My final tip is to use photos to help students understand cause and effect! Photos are a great non-text way for students to see and understand how events are connected to each other in a variety of ways.This activity is perfect for a quick mini-lesson or warm-up for your cause and effect lesson! The decisions that we make impact the outcomes of our day. Let them see that this skill isn’t just something that author’s put into text, but instead, is something that occurs on a daily basis. Another great tip is to have students generate cause and effect examples! When students recognize true cause and effect examples in their everyday life, they are better equipped to identify them in stories.If students know that the cause had to come first – it brings their thinking from something abstract (cause and effect) to something more concrete and sequential. This has been extremely helpful, even at the beginning stages where students are simply identifying which event out of two is the cause and which is the effect. But when discussing two related events where one caused the other – the cause will always be the FIRST thing that could have happened between those two events. Remind students that the Cause happens first! That doesn’t mean that when reading, the Cause is the first event they will read.Teach students that when they see a cause and effect signal word, there’s a possibility of a cause and effect relationship happening that we need to be aware of. There are others but these are the most popular.
Signal words for cause and effect are ‘because, so, for, since, as, and due to. Teach students signal words! Using signal words for cause and effect can help students identify WHEN cause and effect situations are happening in a text.Cause and effect is no different! Let’s check out some cause and effect activities that you can use in your elementary classroom!īefore we jump right into our cause and effect activities, I wanted to share with you some of my best tips! Utilizing these tips can help each of your lessons become the most successful. Isolating each skill and focusing on mastering the skill helps students become confident and build their abilities as readers. But just because readers use all of the skills at once doesn’t mean we should teach them all at once. It’s when readers are well versed in all of the skills and can juggle them simultaneously that they truly become a successful reader. Teaching reading is comprised of so many different skills, each one of them as important as the next.
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