Cause and Effect Worksheets
Related ELA Standard: RI.3.3
When we are analyzing a story or even a sentence, for that matter, it is paramount to find key events that lead character or scenes to move to a conclusion. This relationship leads to a cause (an event or action) that drives the story into a founding principle. Cause and effect relationships are the basis of most stories; because a character took some action this happened. In Science, we not only realize this we grasp why something is happening. This series of worksheets will help students understand the why and what is happening. This is often a forgotten, but paramount skill that we can carry on to the real world.
Cause and Effect Worksheets:
The Boston Tea Party - I never really thought about it, but it was one of the most effective political protests in American History.
How to Make Perfume - We starting doing this for birthday parties last year. Take a look at this reading passage and see what checks all the boxes for you.
How to Make Pie Crust - Crust is the pie to everything about a pie. We tell you all about and then ask you a series of questions that relates to knowing your way around the kitchen.
How a Manuscript Becomes a Book - Let's look at the hierarchy of how it all works. There are six main steps required to get a book ready for publication. Summarize the paragraph above by explaining the six steps. Use transition words that indicate sequence.
Who Was Samuel Mudd? - There were two of them? This passage looks at the Southern Maryland doctor that allegedly had a role in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
What Happened? - Figure out what happened first. To help find the cause and effect of each statement, draw a picture or symbol that represents each sentence.
Draw It Out of Me! - Making a picture does help here. The cause is the picture that would happen first. The effect is what happened in the picture after the cause.
Draw the Main Ideas - Work through these three situations and tell us what started all the events and what happened. Snakes always get me too.
The Magic Picture! - There are two main ideas in each sentence. Do you think if you removed the event that these would still happen.
Why the Tail of the Fox Has a White Tip - The woman wants someone to watch her sheep. What must whoever watches her sheep be able to do?
Two Great Painters - Why do the birds peck at the cherries in the picture? We try to make sense of why these events occurred in the story.
Why the Hoofs of the Deer are Split - See if you can manage the thought process here. What happened first? Circle the correct answer.
Evolution - Write a short paragraph putting the following events in the history of the idea of evolution in order, and explaining how they are related to each other.
Climbing a Mountain - What things should you do before you start climbing a mountain?
The Surly Guest - Using transition words that indicate cause and effect, explain how Mr. Randolph's behavior towards the innkeeper is related to him getting lost.
Make a Dandelion Crown - Rewrite the directions in paragraph form. Use transition words that indicate sequence.
Snakebite! - Why is putting a tourniquet above the wound the first step to treating a snakebite?
Getting to the Moon - Getting a man up to walk on the moon didn't happen overnight.
Blindfold Obstacle Walk - Explain how to play this game that is explained to you.
Just Because - Lots of people watch the superbowl live on television, so advertisers play their best commercials during the breaks.
Just the Highlights - Highlight the cause in yellow and the effect in a different color. Then you will be creative with determining why a series of events have taken place.
What Caused That? - There was confusion on the stage since two of the actors did not practice their lines for the play.
Why All The Effects? - We should take extra special care of our bodies because we only have one to use.
What's With All The Snow Talk? - It does not snow in some places during the winter. If it does happen to snow in those regions there is usually an increase in traffic accidents.
Sports Effects - 1. There are only a few short basketball players. In basketball, taller players are able to make more baskets and provide better defense.
Flips Between Cause and Effect - Use descriptive words to create a picture with your words. This will help you explain your thoughts to your audience.
What Caused You To Go Camping? - We look at the end result of a situation. Why did these things happen at all? Could they have been avoided.
Firework Effect - We look at both sides of the coin here and try to understand why events occurred and what set them off in the first place.
Picture It! - The choices for entry rotate. Remember to use the picturing technique that we taught you previously.
Pets Cause the Darndest Things - Use those sentences for it all. All of these situations involve common household pets.
Create Sentences - This worksheet will allow you to become creative. It starts you off an you give it purpose.
Break Down - Cut these sentences into pieces.
Why? - Determine why something occured.
Match Up - You will match two parts of a sentence and then write a complete thought based on them.
Rewrites - You will put these thoughts into their proper placement in the columns.
What Happened? - You have to figure out why something happened when you are giving the outcome.
What and Why? - Read each sentence. Answer the questions.
Picture It! - You will write a complete sentence based on pictures that you are given.
Underline and Draw - Underline the why within each sentence and then draw the outcome of the action.
Put out Fires - Pick apart these sentences and label each part.
Match Up - Match each sentence with the picture that is the outcome.
Unscramble - Unscramble the sentences and then rewrite the sentence that is produced.
What's Missing? - Read the cause or the effect and fill in the one that is missing. Then write a complete sentence.
Effective - Underline the effect in each sentence.
Makes Sense - The parts of sentences is mixed up here. Make them flow properly.
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