Cause and Effect - Nonfiction

To save money, the Michigan state government had decided to stop transporting clean, treated water from Detroit to Flint.

What is the cause in the statement above?

• The government wanted to save money.

• The government stopped transporting clean, treated water to Flint.

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High lead levels can affect how children's brains develop. This can lead to many different health problems, including learning disorders, behavioral issues, hearing loss, and more.

What are two effects of high lead levels?

• Low blood sugar

• Hearing loss

• Behavioral issues

• Cardiac arrest

In 1965, Mary Beth Tinker and a group of other students planned to wear black armbands to school. These armbands had white peace signs on them. They were symbols of protest against the Vietnam War. School officials heard about this planned protest. They passed a ban on armbands before the day of the protest. Then, when Tinker and the other students showed up with their black armbands, school officials told the students to remove their armbands. But the students refused. So school officials suspended the students from school. The students believed their freedom of speech and right to protest were being restricted. So they sued their school district.

What caused the students to be suspended from school?

• The school heard about the planned protest.

• They organized a peacefully rally.

• They sued the school district.

• They refused to remove their black armbands.

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In 1983, a group of high school students tested these limits. They thought their school principal had denied their right to freedom of expression. These students worked on their school newspaper and planned on publishing some articles on sensitive topics in the newspaper. For example, one article they planned to publish was about divorce. The school principal decided not to publish these articles. He thought those topics were not appropriate for a school newspaper. The students disagreed. They believed they had the right to publish the stories. They thought the principal’s actions went against their First Amendment right to freedom of the press. So the three students sued the school district.

Why did the students sue the school district?

• The students planned to publish a paper about divorce.

• The principal would not allow the students to publish their articles in the school newspaper.

• They thought the principal be mean.

• The students violated the first amdendment.

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High lead levels can affect how children's brains develop. This can lead to many different health problems, including learning disorders, behavioral issues, hearing loss, and more.

Which two signal words shows a cause and effect relationship?

• including

• and more.

• can affect

• This can lead to

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Look down at your feet. Are you wearing shoes? Why? People wear shoes many reasons. The first and most important reason is to protect their feet. Shoes keep people from hurting their feet while walking on rough surfaces, but this isn’t the only reason why people wear shoes. Some people wear special shoes that are designed to help them play a game, like bowling shoes or soccer cleats. Some people wear expensive, designer shoes so that they appear fashionable and feel good about themselves. And a lot of other people like my dad wear shoes so that their feet won’t stink up the room.

Why do people wear expensive, designer shoes?

• They are trying to be practical.

• They want to appear fashionable.

• They have money to spend.

• They are pretending to be rich.

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