1. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Cause and effect relationships Stefanie R. Sorbet, M.ed

2. Objectives or focus for today : TSWBAT differentiate between cause and effects in a given passage aeb reading orally. TSWBAT identify the effects that correspond to the appropriate cause aeb writing.

3. What will happen? Student responses CauseEffect

4. What do you think will happen? If you clean your room, you may__________________________. Margaret didn’t study for her test so____________________________.

5. What happened first? Because the class stopped talking, permission was given to go to recess.

6. Cause and Effect The cause is what happened first and the effect is a result of the cause. Because usually indicates the cause. Because the class stopped talking, permission was given to go to recess.

7. Cause and Effect The effect is the second part of the idea that usually tells what might happen because the first thing happened. It is called the effect. Because the class stopped talking, permission was given to go to recess.

8. After students have grasped cause and effect… Sometimes the effect might come first in a sentence. Permission was given to go to recess because the class stopped talking.

9. Story time Let’s participate in a shared reading of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and see if we can look and listen for cause and effects.

10. Guided Practice Now, let’s look back in our story and recall some of the cause and effects we found. Come and label the cause and effect with a C and an E. 1. If you give a mouse a cookie-he’ll probably ask for a glass of milk. 2. When you give him the milk, he’ll 3. 4. 5.

11. Group Work Directions: In your small groups, you will have a set of cookies and milks to put together. Rearrange your cookies and milks on the center of your desk area and match the milks with the cookies. Each cookie is a cause and each milk is an effect. We will not glue down our answers to construction paper until I have come by and checked your work. If you need help, ask three before me and then raise your hand.

12. Check your answers. Effect You will make a low grade. Effect You will trip and fall. Effect You will have to buy some dog food. Effect He’s going to ask for a glass of milk. Cause If you don’t study for your spelling test… Cause If you get a new puppy… Cause If you give a mouse a cookie… Cause If you don’t tie your shoelaces…

13. Independent Practice You will work independently to show what you have learned with cause and effects today. Fill in the blanks with the cause or effect. Write a C above the causes in each sentence, and an E above each of the effects. If the dog hears a strange noise, he will _________________. If you hear thunder, __________________________________ ______________________, then you might get burned. If you leave your toys on the floor, _______________________. ____________________________, you will get a bellyache. Choices If you play with fireIt will probably rain You might trip and fallIf you eat too much Probably bark loudly

14. Extension When you finish your independent practice, turn it over and answer this: If you give a teacher a fish, she will want ________________________________. If she has a fish, she will want ______________________________. Keep writing to continue the story. Be creative.

15. Closing What did we learn today? Cause and Effects are tricky but always ask yourself what happened first and that is the cause. It doesn’t matter if it comes first in the sentence because it could come second. Now let’s check our responses from the beginning of the lesson.