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Engaging With Cause-and-Effect Relationships Through Creating Comic Strips
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| Grades | 2 – 4 |
| Estimated Time | Four 60-minute sessions |
| Lesson Author |
Monett, Missouri |
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LESSON PLANS
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
Students explore the nature and structure of expository texts that focusing on cause and effect and apply what they learned using graphic organizers and writing paragraphs to outline cause-and-effect relationships.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
The Day Jimmy’s Boa Taught Cause and Effect
This lesson introduces the concept of cause and effect with Trinka Hakes Noble’s books about Jimmy and his boa constrictor.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Reading and Writing About Pollution to Understand Cause and Effect
Students get to write a whale of a tale when they complete a graphic organizer sequencing the journey of a mountain fish to a polluted waterway.
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).
PRINTOUTS
Grades 3 – 12 | Printout | Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer helps students see the sequential or cause-effect relationships between multiple events in a text.
PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY
Grades K – 8 | Professional Library | Book
Trading Cards to Comic Strips: Popular Culture Texts and Literacy Learning in Grades K-8
This resource shows how to use television, movies, video games, music, magazines, and other media to motivate students and enhance literacy learning.
GAMES & TOOLS
Grades K – 12 | Game & Tool
The Comic Creator invites children and teens to design their own comic strips.