Cause and Effect Lesson Kindergarten

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Cause and Effect LessonKindergarten
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TEKS/Standards

• Interpret pictures to determine cause and effect
• Draw pictures and/or use letters and phonetically
  spelled words to write about stories, objects, or
  events

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Objectives

• Students will identify cause and effect by
  interpreting pictures and providing examples
• Students will write using inventive spelling.

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Introduction

• Bring in a balloon
• Have a student hold it and pop it with a pin
• Have students tell you what happened and why
• Tell them today they will be talking about cause
  and effect
• Focus on the Why

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Teaching

• Explain Cause and Effect
• Use chart paper or board
• Have a variety of cause and effect situations for
  students to analyze and help you complete
• Your alarm clock does not go off, so
• Your leave the water on in the tub,
• You leave the door open,

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Rationale

• Just like in real life, stories have
  relationships
• A good reader will stop to think about what
  happened and why.
• This will help you understand the story.
• Read If you give a pig a pancake by Laura
  Numeroff

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Practice

• With their bilingual partner, have students
  practice writing effect from story using pictures
  as a guide
• Teacher monitors and offers feedback and praise.

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Cause Effect

• If you give a pig a pancake,

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Cause Effect

• Shell probably get all sticky,

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Cause Effect

• Shell ask you for some bubbles.

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Cause Effect

• Youll play your very best piano piece

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Cause Effect

• If she asks you for some syrup,

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Class Cause and Effect Book

• Give each bilingual pair a white sheet of paper
  with the words cause and effect written across
  the top
• Ask pairs to create a cause and effect situation
  from their own experiences
• Have the pair present their work to the class
  (group processing)

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Cause Effect
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• Collect all work and create a class book
• Place book in class library

Our Cause and Effect Book
Dr Alanís Class 2005