Scott Foresman Reading Street

SKILLS

STRATEGIES IN CONTEXT

Cause and Effect Graphic Organizers

Test

Selection Test:
Unit 6;
Benchmark Tests: Units 4, 6

Reteach/
Review

TE: 3.3 303b, 315, DI•55; 3.4 35b, 49, 71, DI•52; 3.6 293, 331b, 373, DI•53

PB: 3.1 103, 107, 108, 116; 3.2 3, 7,
8, 16, 26, 106, 113, 117, 118, 136

Practice

TE: 3.3 280–281, 3.4 12–13, 3.6 304–305

Introduce/
Teach

Cause and Effect

	Identify cause and effect relationships.
	Use graphic organizers to analyze cause and effect relationships.

INTRODUCE

Write the following on the board: Because Jennifer left the birdcage open, the bird flew away. Ask, "What happened?" (The bird flew away.) Ask, "Why did it happen?" (Jennifer left the birdcage open.)

Have students read the information on
p. 304. Explain the following:

The cause is "why something happened." An effect is "what happened." The cause makes another thing, the effect, happen.
Using a graphic organizer can help you identify cause and effect relationships.

Use Skill Transparency 27 to teach cause and effect and graphic organizers.

TEACH

SKILL Use paragraph 2 to

model how to use clue words to identify a cause and effect relationship.

MODEL Sometimes authors use clue words, such as because, so, and since. However, these words do not always indicate a cause and effect relationship. I must check to see that one event makes another event happen rather than simply coming after an event.

STRATEGY Use a graphic

organizer to identify and analyze cause and effect relationships.

MODEL As I read the last paragraph, I look for events that cause other events to happen. I can record them in a graphic organizer. This helps me decide if the relationships are truly cause and effect. I begin by drawing a cause and effect graphic organizer.

PRACTICE AND ASSESS

SKILL Causes: They miss their home

in northern Mexico; they miss their friends who still live in Mexico.

STRATEGY Causes: Rosa is doing

well in school; the store is successful. Effect: The Garcías feel happy.

WRITE Have students complete steps

1 and 2 of the Write to Read activity. You might consider using this as a whole class activity.

then… use Practice Book, 3.2 p. 113 to provide additional practice.

If… students are unable to complete
Write to Read
on p. 304,

Main Idea

Available as Skill Transparency 27

An effect may have more than one
cause: Dad’s computer crashed because
it didn’t have enough memory, and he
was running too many programs at once.

A cause may have more than one effect:
Because I forgot to set my alarm clock,
I overslept, and I was late for school.

An effect is something that happens.
A cause is why that thing happens.

Cause and Effect

Graphic
Organizers

Strategy

Cause and Effect

Skill

Skill The clue word
because signals
a cause. What
causes the Garcías
to be sad?

The Garcías repeated these words many times
every day, as a steady stream of customers entered
and left their small grocery store. Business was
good, and the García family was making a good
living from the store. Still, at times they were sad
because they missed their beautiful little village
in northern Mexico. They also missed all of the
family members they had left behind when they
moved to Chicago.

“Thank you,” said Mr. and Mrs. García, as
the customer left the store. “Please come again.”

A graphic organizer can help you identify
and organize information as you read. You
can make one like this and fill it in with
causes and effects as you read the story.

Strategy: Graphic Organizers

Effects

Causes

Fill in your chart as you
read the story.

Read “A New Life.” Look for
causes and effects in the story.
Make a graphic organizer like
the one above.

Strategy Here
are some more
causes and effects.
If you made a
graphic organizer,
you could add this
information to it.

The Garcías looked at the report card and
then hugged Rosa. She was doing so well in
her new school! And the store was doing well too.
They were happy. Yes, they missed their old home
in Mexico. But here in Chicago, they had found a
better life for themselves and for Rosa.

“¡Hola!” shouted Rosa as she burst through the
back door of the store. “I got my report card today.
Here it is.”



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	Access Content Beginning/Intermediate For a Picture It! lesson on cause and effect, see the ELL Teaching Guide, pp. 183–184. Advanced Demonstrate how students can check causal relationships by joining the cause and effect and adding because. For example, in the last paragraph on p. 305, students may create the following sentence: Because Rosa was doing well in school and the store was doing well, the Garcías were happy. Point out that moving because to the second part of the sentence makes a false statement; therefore, the cause and effect are correctly identified in the example sentence. Cause and Effect Provide several examples of simple cause and effect relationships, and have students identify the cause, or “why it happened,” and the effect, or “what happened.” Then progress to situations in which multiple causes produce one effect and one cause produces multiple effects. Practice Book 3.2 p. 113 with \| without Answers