---
title: Cause and Effect
description: Students will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of cause and effect from informational text.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/cause_effect-001.png
---

**Subject: ELA (English Language Arts)**

**Lesson Length: 30 - 45 mins**

**Topic: Cause and Effect**

**Grade Level: 5**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.5](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  Students will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of cause and effect from informational text.

**Know Before You Start:** Students should have some understanding of cause and effect. At least two informational texts about a topic will be needed for students to read and analyze.

**Hook:**

- Read and discuss the sample comic. 
  
    - How did the oil spill cause the effect?
- Share an informational text passage with students and model examples of cause and effect within the passage.

**Activity:**

- Provide students with a second informational text and ask them to read with a partner. 
- Have students find examples of cause and effect within the text. 
- Have students create a two-panel comic demonstrating their understanding of cause and effect based on the text.

**Closure:**

- Discuss the cause and effect examples with students.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Provide a list of common cause and effect signal words.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/qadcvse).

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1792949466542800896/thumbnail.png) Ocean ](https://content.pixton.com/ocean)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1692653419912892416/thumbnail.png) Winter ](https://content.pixton.com/winter)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2032456824934916096/thumbnail.png) Viking ](https://content.pixton.com/viking)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1838241380359630848/thumbnail.png) Energy ](https://content.pixton.com/energy)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1652034891862478848/thumbnail.png) Prehistoric ](https://content.pixton.com/prehistoric)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1863972626834292736/thumbnail.png) Rock Cycle ](https://content.pixton.com/rock-cycle)

**Suggested Story Starters:**

- [ Climate Change Is Caused by Human Activity ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/climate-change-is-caused-by-human-activity)

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