Cause and Effect SOR_August 29

Personal Narratives:
My Story, My Voice

Ms. Robertson & Ms. Rodgers

4th Grade

Science of Reading

August 29, 2023

Do Now

Turn to page 5 in your

activity book. Answer the

questions in complete

sentences.

You can use the anchor chart or vocabulary word.

A personal narrative is a

4.12.A Compose literary texts such as personal narratives and poetry using genre characteristics and craft.
4.6.C Make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures.

Learning Objective:

SWBAT compose personal narratives.

SWBAT make and correct or confirm predictions using text features,

characteristics of genre, and structures.

Knowledge Objective:

SWBAT examine the genre of personal narratives from a variety of racial,

cultural, and geographic perspectives.

Demonstration of Learning:

I will compose a personal narrative.

Cause and Effect

Cause and Effect

Prediction

Cause and Effect in Personal Narratives

Authors often use the cause and effect structure

in their personal narratives to describe how
someone changed them or how they have

changed someone else.

My grandmother
made sure I
read a book
before bed
every night.

I love to read and
now I am an
author of a
children books.

Match

Match the Cause to the Effect.

• At night, I would look at the moon through my telescope.

• My brother taught me how to play basketball.

• I found an injured bird and my dad helped me fix its wing so it could fly again.

I designed a Spacesuit so that astronauts could travel into Space.

I became the first African American female to play in the WNBA.

I loved to help all kinds of animals so I grew up to be a veterinarian.

• I designed a Spacesuit so that astronauts could travel into Space.

• I became the first African American female to play in the WNBA.

• I loved to help all kinds of animals so I grew up to be a veterinarian.

Predicting Effects - Turn and Talk

When the reader
understands the cause,
it is easier to think
about what the logical
effect of the cause
could be and to make a
relevant prediction.

Cause

Effect

The heavy rain cause

the streets to flood.

Jayden left his

lunch on the bus.

Sarah overslept and
was late for her
important meeting.

Brainstorming - MWA

Person

Change

Activity 3.2 page 23.

Writing About Cause and Effect

Parts of a Paragraph - Review

Introduce situation in memory/first
sentence.

Supporting
Sentences

Events and details in supporting
sentences.

Concluding
Sentence

Connect your memory to the present
with a concluding sentence explaining
why your memory is important to you.

Topic Sentence

Writing About Cause and Effect - Silent Solo

Demonstration of Learning

I will compose a personal narrative.