5th and 6th Grade Cause and Effect Worksheets

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Students practice informational reading comprehension skills while learning all about the national artistic tradition of azulejo tiles!

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

What are the effects of storms and other weather events? Students will create flow charts that represent the multiple effects that are a result of specific weather causes.

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

In this worksheet students will be challenged to use information from multiple sources about coral reefs.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

Tap into your students’ creativity by challenging them to create an infographic using content from their reading!

Integrate science and reading as students research and write about the causes and effects of certain actions in the environment.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.