Cause and Effect

What happened? Why did it happen? These were the two most common questions of the week flying around our class. We explored cause and effect in the stories we read. The students learned that every effect has a cause and every cause leads to an effect.

First, we read Cookie's Week and saw how Cookie had some pretty bad effects because of her actions. For example, she fell in the toliet (cause) and water went everywhere! (effect)

Later on we watched a DVD reading of the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. The students made their own book with a cause and effect from the story. Ask your child about a cause and effect from this story!

Here is a website full of activities for this book.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Here are websites to practice these newly learned skills. Students very often confuse the two. Remember, the cause is the WHY and the effect is the WHAT.

Cause and Effect practice

Cause and Effect matching