Lesson Title: Cause and Effect

Grade: 5

Goals or Objectives: Students will be able to define the terms cause and effect.
Students will be able to identify the cause/effect relationship in their reading groups.
Students will demonstrate learning by creating cause/effect t-charts and presenting to their peers.
Grade Level Guide: Content Standards
Content Curriculum Focal Points Common Core State
(ie: NCTM, IRA,)
Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.5.1
Students participate as
Engage effectively in a range
knowledgeable, reflective,
of collaborative discussions
creative, and critical members of (one-on-one, in groups, and
a variety of literacy
teacher-led) with diverse
communities.
partners on grade 5 topics
and texts, building on others'
ideas and expressing their
own clearly.

Interdisciplinary Connections

Science
Social Studies

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.5.4
Report on a topic or text or
present an opinion,
sequencing ideas logically
and using appropriate facts
and relevant, descriptive
details to support main ideas
or themes; speak clearly at
an understandable pace.
Academic Language:
Cause
Effect
Signal Words
T-chart
Students Needs: Students will need to have experience cause/effect and consequences and recognize
that experience in their own lives.
English Language Learners

Special Needs (can be a

group such as struggling
readers or individuals)

Basic english books

Grouping with higher level

students and lower level
books.

Materials: Reading group books, White boards, dry erase markers, PowerPoint presentation, YouTube
video on cause and effect, Lexile Scale

Language Function: Students will be moved into higher thinking through real-life application in a
classroom group discussion. Students will also practice identifying and analyzing the cause and effect
relationship in their reading group books.
Lesson Plan
Before: Teachers will introduce the topic by asking students if they have ever wondered why things
turn out the way they do and give them sometime to reflect and analyze based on their own personal
experiences. Teachers will then introduce the topic and move into the PowerPoint.
During: Teachers will start by asking the students what they know about cause and effect. Students are
expected to be actively participating in taking notes and group discussions throughout the PowerPoint.
Students will participate in large discussion about their experiences with cause and effect. Students are
expected to contribute to their reading group activity by both helping to read the story and helping to
identify with their peers the relationships in their books. Students will also display their findings and
present to the class.
After: Cause and Effect will be the Critical Thinking portion of their upcoming test. Students will
complete post-learning activity in reading groups and present findings to the class.
Assessment:
Type of assessment
(formal or informal)

Informal

Description of
assessment

Modifications to the
assessment so that
all students could
demonstrate
learning
Large Group
Books given to
Discussion- students groups correspond
will share their real to their reading
life examples of
level.
cause and effect.

Evaluation Criteria- What

evidence of student learning
(related to the learning objectives
and central focus) does the
assessment provide?
Looking for (listening in
discussion), the understanding and
mastery of cause and effect based
on their real-life stories in the
large class discussion.

Group Activityreading groups will

identify cause/effect
in their reading
group books and
present to the class.

Resources:
o YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMTIuPvU6Lc
o Handout
Creativewriting-prompts.com Graphic Organizer Cause and Effect TChart
Lexile Scale

Analyzing Teaching: To be completed after the lesson has been taught

What worked?
What didnt? For whom?
Adjustments
What instructional changes do you need to make as
you prepare for your next lesson?

Proposed Changes

Whole class:

If you could teach this lesson again to this group of

students what changes would you make to your
instruction?

Groups of students:
Individual students:

Justification
Why will these changes improve student learning?
What research/theory supports these changes?

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