Read the sentence: 'The dog barked loudly, so the cat ran away.' Identify the cause and the effect in this sentence.

Cause: The dog barked loudly. Effect: The cat ran away.

Rewrite the following two sentences as a single sentence that clearly shows the cause and effect relationship using the signal word 'since': 'It was raining heavily. The soccer game was cancelled.'

Since it was raining heavily, the soccer game was cancelled.

Grade 3rd Grade · Science · 20 min· Ngss

I can identify words that show cause and effect in science texts.

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Cause and Effect | Reading Strategies | EasyTeaching

3 key concepts

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A cause happens first and tells us why something happened, while an effect happens after the cause and tells us what happened.
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Cause and effect signal words, such as so, because, and due to, can help you spot cause and effect relationships in books.
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When identifying cause and effect, the cause answers the question 'Why did this happen?' and the effect answers the question 'What happened?'.

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“Read the sentence and identify the signal word or phrase, and then identify the cause and effect: 'Because the dog barked, the baby woke up.'”

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