1. Cause and Effect Name: Date:
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears by Verna Aardema

2. Mosquito lied.
Iguana
stuck sticks
in his ears so
couldn’t hear
Mosquito.
Iguana could
not hear
Python speak
to him.
Python was
angry that
Iguana did not
speak to him
and hid
in a hole.
Python scared
Rabbit, who ran
for her life.
Crow saw
Rabbit running
and spread
the alarm of
danger.

3. The animals were afraid.
Monkey saw
Crow and wanted
to help alert
other animals,
so he
screeched and
ran, breaking a
dead limb.
The limb
fell
on an
owl’s nest.
Mother Owl
grieved for her
Owlet.
There was no day.
Night lasted too long.
The animals were afraid.
Mother Owl
was too sad
to wake up
the sun.