This lesson encourages parents and teachers to collaborate with first grade students to learn about cause and effect in a remote learning setting.

In this writing lesson plan, students write about the events of Romeo and Juliet and try to figure out their root causes. Students can take a number of approaches, each of which includes summarizing the events of the play and finding evidence to support their interpretation of the causes of the events.

This lesson aligns with the 7th grade Social Studies curriculum and works best when integrated into an interdisciplinary unit, such as Reliving the Middle Ages Across Lliterary Genres. Interdisciplinary Units are effective when teachers from two different content areas collaborate to plan lessons, assessments, activities and projects that support their content skills and standards. The content being taught in one course supports the content in another and students approach difficult, content-specific texts with more familiarity and gain better comprehension.  Students read two nonfiction articles about the Middle Ages, which lasted from about A.D. 500 to A.D. 1500. Both texts examine one of the most significant events of this time period-- the spread of the bubonic plague, or the Black Death. Each text is organized into cause-and-effect pattern of organization. One outlines HOW the disease spread (causes) and the other explains how it affected Europe (effects). Students analyze two texts by different authors writing about the same topic, the Black Plague, and compare/contrast how each author shapes their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence. 

This PDF allows students to read passages, identify the text structure, and write information from the passage into the appropriate graphic organizer. The handout will serve as a great means of practice to remediate, enrich, or extended students? knowledge about various types of text structures found in informational text.

This article highlights seven science lessons that teach elementary students about seasonal change. Suggestions for integrating literacy and science include two lessons that use informational text and cause and effect relationships.

This PDF allows students to read six nonfiction passages, identify the main idea and text structure, and come up with an appropriate title for each text.

Students look at the objects given and notice where the sun is positioned. Students draw a shadow that would be cast by the object according to the sun's position.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, highlights ways to teach about the extremes in day and night and seasons in the Arctic and Antarctica. The targeted literacy skill is cause/effect relationships. Art and poetry are integrated through a study of the aurora.

This article highlights children's literature about day and night, seasons, the aurora, and cause and effect for use in the elementary classroom.

This lesson has students look at the characters of Romeo and Juliet and perform a quick analysis in an attempt to figure out who to blame for the tragic ending of the play.

This PDF allows students to read five nonfiction passages about the American War for Independence. Students will determine the structure of each passage, include information on their graphic organizers, and create visual representations of each text.

This pair of mini-lessons offer convenient ways to teach cause and effect in the English classroom. The first lesson uses graphic organizers to show students cause and effect visually, and the second uses statistics to give students practice interpreting graphs and statistics.

In this lesson, students go step-by-step through the process of writing an effective cause-and-effect essay. Students first take notes on what a strong cause-and-effect essay should do, then begin to write.