Cause and Effect Text Structure

Introduction to Cause and Effect Text Structure

Why something Happened and What happened as a result.

CAUSE QUESTIONS and CONTENT

This is easy...

THE CAUSE IS WHY SOMETHING HAPPENED.

Lets say you recieve an F on your report card and you lose your phone because of that.

"You lost your phone beCAUSE you did poorly in school."

So the losining of the phone is the EFFECT, and the CAUSE is the poor grade.

Open Ended

Let's see if you can come up with a CAUSE for the poor grade. Name one reason (why something happened) that you would get a poor grade.

Multiple Select

Select three CAUSE INDICATORS

• If this happens

• This led to

• because

• impact

• outcome

Multiple Select

Select three EFFECT INDICATORS.

• as a result

• As a consequence

• Because of

• compared to

• this one is wrong

Cause questions to help identify;

who did it happen to

why did it happen

when did it happen

what was it

How many things happened?

Effect questions to identify.

What was the impact of what happened

was there more than one result

what are the consequences

what thing happened reward/consequence?

CAUSE AND EFFECT CAN BE DETERMINED IF YOU CAN IDENTIFY "IF.... THEN"

If I add Mentos to Diet Coke, then I will achieve an explosion.