Literacy+Tools+-+Cause+and+Effect

__Read Write Think: Engaging With Cause and Effect Relationships__ [|cause and effect lesson plan] This is a link to a lesson plan that can be used to help students in grade second through fourth develop the concept of cause and effect through the creation of comic strips. There is a great online resource attached to the lesson plan that allows students to create their comic strip using technology.

__Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer__ This graphic organizer allows students to think about how there is often more than one cause that leads to a particular event, and that a resulting events can become a cause for other events. This would be especially useful when studying the American Revolution because there were many factors that led to the event, and it had last impacts in a variety of realms.

__Read Write Think: Exploring Cause and Effect__ [|cause and effect lesson plan] This is a link to a lesson on cause and effect that can be adapted for use in grades three through five. It focuses on finding cause and effect in expository texts.