cause effect

1. Learning How to
Identify Cause and
Effect

2. The cause is the reason
something happens.
When you are trying to find the
cause it answers the question Why?
• EffectCause= The
Reason
• School had to be
canceled for the
day.
An unexpected
snowstorm hit
our
neighborhood.

3. When you are trying to locate
the cause remember it will
happen before the effect.
• EffectCause= The
Reason
• Gia becomes a
very good piano
player.
Gia practices
the piano
every day.

4. The effect is what
happens or what
happened.
• Effect= What
happened.
Cause= The
Reason
• More children
learned how to
use the computer.
The children at
Level Green
Elementary got a
new computer lab.

5. Cause = The Reason
Effect= What happened
Let’s practice!

6. The children in Room 122
read the most books
Cause = The Reason
Effect= What happened
What’s the cause?
What is the effect?
so the class won an ice
cream party.
Cause
Effect

7. Mom spilled orange juice
all over the floor,
so we had to get a
mop to clean it up.

8. LET’S PRACTICE IDENTIFYING
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
IN THE NEXT THREE SLIDES
IDENTIFY THE CAUSE.

9. WHAT IS THE CAUSE?
.
The shoes were left in
the hallway and Joshua
fell down.

10. The dog barked
and the baby woke up crying
from it’s nap.

11. Sam was outside playing in the rain
with no coat and he got sick.

12. In the next three problems
identify the effect.

13. The children were bored so
they played board
games all afternoon.

14. The principal was yelling at the students
so everyone sat down on the bus.

15. Cause = The Reason
Effect= What happened
Can you think of some
examples in your class of
cause and effect?
REMEMBER