Cause and effect read alouds

Check out these 20 picture books for teaching cause and effect! Use these cause and effect books in 2nd grade or 3rd grade!

Making a flip book and lots of other ideas for teaching Cause and Effect Using Informational Text!

Includes anchor charts, interactive notebook pages, and activities for teaching cause and effect in upper elementary.

Books would be no fun without cause & effect! Teach cause and effect with picture books to teach the sequence of events and make connections.

When you’re helping children learn about cause and effect, it’s helpful to provide plenty of examples. Discuss the definitions of cause and effect, find everyday...

If you are looking to add some high interest activities to your lessons, try using animated shorts to teach the reading skill cause and effect.

Read aloud Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty to your first, second and third grade students and use these printable activities and worksheets created by Clutter-Free Classroom and teaching ideas to deliver standards-based reading lessons. Your elementary students will love this children’s book, which is great for teaching topics like character analysis, cause and effect, plot, author’s purpose and making connections. Grab all of the helpful tips and printables for you need here!

The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Susan Stevens Crummel is part of Clutter-Free Classroom’s Starts With a Story collection, which is a library of printable and digital resources for students in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade. This picture book is great for teaching character traits, cause and effect, making inferences, making predictions, and teamwork. Your elementary students will love this read aloud and the related activities, worksheets and lesson ideas that are in the book companion. Scoop them up here!

Are you looking for a read aloud to teach 1st, 2nd or 3rd graders about Orange shirt day? Check out this Clutter-Free Classroom post, which showcases David A. Robertson’s When We Were Alone, a mentor text for teaching Idigenous People Day, as well as reading comprehension strategies like cause and effect, sequencing and author’s purpose. This post shares free tips and ideas specific to this children’s book. Check out the printable activities and worksheets for elementary students too!

If you’re a first, second or third grade teacher looking for lesson ideas and activities for the children’s book, Mr. Peabody’s Apples by Madonna, you’re in luck! This apples picture book, a fall read aloud for elementary teachers, lends itself to teaching inferring, predicting, summarizing, plot-problem/solution, cause and effect and theme. Pair an anchor chart with the printable worksheets spotlighted in this Clutter-Free Classroom post to deliver excellent read aloud lessons. Learn more…