1. Topic-
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| Understanding Cause and Effect |
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2. Content-
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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| Students will be able to distinguish between cause and effect. Students
will also be able to identify the cause from a passage when given
the effect, and identify the effect from a passage when given the
cause. |
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4. Objectives-
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| Students will show that they understand cause and effect by creating
a story of their own that is full of cause and effect throughout. |
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5. Materials and Aids-
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| Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith
Viorst |
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
| Teacher will read the story to the class all the way through. The
story if filled with various cause and effect situations, which the
student will later identify. |
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B. Development-
| After the story has been read to the students, the class will work
together to create a Tchart that lists some of the cause and effect
situation in the story. |
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C. Practice-
| After the story has been read to the students, the class will work
together to create a T-chart that lists some of the cause and effect
situations in the story. |
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D. Independent Practice-
| After identifying some of the cause and effect situations from the
story, the students will create their own T-charts, identifying more
cause and effect situations. |
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E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-
| No students needing accommodations. |
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F. Checking for understanding-
| To check for understanding, the students will be assigned to create
their own stories about having a bad day. The stories will need to
be full of various cause and effect situations that would result in
a bad day. |
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G. Closure-
| Quick review of cause and effect, and small group discussion of
cause and effect |
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7. Evaluation-
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| Teacher will read student stories to ensure that the concept was
understood. |
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