5th - 7th Grade Cause and Effect Worksheets

Explore the many ways people around the world embrace winter in this reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

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

Read an informational passage about George Washington Carver to learn about his life and achievements!

Explore a fascinating period of U.S. history with this informational reading worksheet about the Harlem Renaissance.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.