CE+RIT+181-190

Skill: Identify Cause and Effect

Title of Lesson: Cause and Effect in Literary Text

RIT Range: 181-190

Objective: • Recognizes cause and effect relationships in literary text

ISBE Standard:

Resources/Materials: __The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash__ by Steven Kellogg, chart paper, blank paper for each student

Introduction:

Lesson Activity: Closure:
 * 1) Introduce the book //The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash//. Point out that there are sometimes only a few words on the pages, so students will have to pay close attention to the illustrations.
 * 1) Read //The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash// aloud to the class. Make sure all the students can see the book and each page's illustrations.
 * 2) While reading the story, ask the students what is happening and why each event occurred. For example: Why did the farmer crash into the haystack? Why were the pigs on the bus? Why were they eating the lunches?
 * 3) After the story, list some of the events in the story on the board or chart paper. For example: The children threw corn. The chicken got excited and laid an egg. The farmer's wife was screaming.
 * 4) Ask students what caused these events. (e.g., They ran out of eggs. Jimmy's boa scared the chickens. The boa was in the laundry.) Add these causes to the board or chart paper before the events.
 * 5) Introduce the vocabulary term //cause and effect//. Explain that a cause is what makes something happen, and label the first column //causes//. Explain that each cause has an effect, or what happened, and label the second column //effects//.
 * 6) Model how to draw a cause-and-effect picture on the board or chart paper. Draw the cause in the first box and the effect in the next one.
 * 7) Pass out blank paper for students to fold in half and label "cause and effect."
 * 8) Ask students to pick any event from the story and draw its cause and effect.
 * 1) Monitor students' pictures for understanding of cause and effect.

Method of Assessment/Data Collection: Students will complete the __Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash__ worksheet: [|**http://www.theteachersguide.com/booklessons/dayjimmysboaatethewash/jimmysboacauseandeffect.pdfs**]