1. Cause and Effect
Learning Objective: Distinguishing between cause and effect in an expository Today we will be distinguishing between cause and effect in expository text.
effect
cause
Do gestures with students. Fact - hit hand opinion-finger to brain in expository text-open hands like a book
What are we going to do?

2. Check for understanding!
What two things are we distinguishing today in language?
What type of text are we going to use?
cause
effect
EXPOSITORY

3. What will happen if you received all 4s on your report card?

4. A Cause is why something happens
The girl had to miss recess because she did not do her homework
The boy missed the bus because he overslept.
Janice studied hard for the test as a result she received an A.

5. Effect is what happened
The girl had to miss recess because she did not do her homework
The boy missed the bus because he overslept.
Janice studied hard for the test as a result she received an A.

6. The Importance of Cause and Effect
Good readers are able to distinguish cause and effect relationships to understand why things happen in stories

7. Clues words that signal cause and effect
How can we tell the difference or distinguish between cause and effect?
cause
To see if something is a cause ask yourself why did it happen?
effect
To distinguish effect ask yourself what happened?
The girl was hungry, so she ate a piece of pie.
Clues words that signal cause and effect
since
as a result
because of
because
therefore
due to
consequently
for this reason so

8. Cause and Effect I could not eat dinner because I ate all the apples.
2. Ever since Scruffy bit me, I’ve been afraid of dogs.
3. I could not find my shoes, so I was late.
Rachel and Jose put in too much sugar, therefore
the recipe did not work.
Make copies

9. I became proficient in language arts because I studied hard.
Closing
What did we distinguish today?
What is a cause and what is an effect?
What are some signal words or phrases to identify some cause and effect relationships?
I became proficient in language arts because I studied hard.
Have students pair share answer to L.O
Have students pair share answer to definition to cause and effect plus signal words
Using w/b have students complete example