Magpie-Cause and Effect

​We can identify cause and effect relationships in a passage!

Poll

Which picture of a magpie is your favorite?

Match

Match the cause and effect relationships.

• You spilled milk all over your dress.

• You forgot your umbrella at home.

• You missed the bus.

• You left your phone on silent mode.

• You ate too much junk food.

You had to change your clothes.

You got wet in the rain.

You had to walk to work.

You missed an important call.

You felt sick.

• You had to change your clothes.

• You got wet in the rain.

• You had to walk to work.

• You missed an important call.

• You felt sick.

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Multiple Choice

Magpie makes the very best nest. What happened because Magpie makes the very best nest?

• Long ago, all the birds asked Magpie to teach them how to build nests.

• Magpie did not want to teach the other birds how to build nests.

• Sparrow came back and said she was sorry.

• Long ago, all the birds asked Magpie to take apart her nest because it was too nice

Audio Response

What caused Magpie to get angry and not show the birds how to build a nest again?

Open Audio Recorder

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The Magpie’s Nest Of all the birds in the air, the magpie builds the very best nest. Long ago, all the birds came to Magpie and asked her to teach them how to build nests. So Magpie got them all together and began to show them how to do it. First, she took some mud and patted it into the shape of a pancake. “Ah ha!” said Thrush, and away she flew. So Thrush still builds her nest out of mud. Then Magpie arranged some twigs around in the mud. “Well of course,” said Owl, and away she flew. Owls have never made better nests than that. Magpie turned the edges of the pancake up into a bowl shape, and put more twigs around the outside. “What a good idea!” said Sparrow, and Sparrow makes messy nests to this day. And so it went on. Each bird took away some knowledge of how to build nests, but none of them waited to the end. Finally, only silly Turtle-dove was left, and she hadn’t been

Multiple Choice

Each bird took away some knowledge of how to build nests, but none of them except silly Turtle-dove waited until the end. What was the effect?

• Birds can't build any nests at all.

• Birds build their nest differently to this day.

• Some birds can't fly and find food away from their nest.

• The birds have gone extinct.