Cause and Effect Analysis

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📖 Part 1: Finding Causes and Effects (Pages 7-11)

WALT: To identify cause and effect within the story

Success Criteria: I can find what happened and why it happened in the story

1. Look at pages 7-11. What happened when the cat got upset about the soup?

Cause: The cat was upset because ________________________

Effect: What happened next was ________________________

2. Find another cause and effect from these pages. Draw or write about it.

Because this happened:

This happened next:

3. Why do you think the characters felt differently after the events on these pages?

4. Complete these cause and effect sentences from the story:

When the cat __________________, the duck felt __________________.

Because the characters argued, they __________________.

The soup tasted different because __________________.

5. What do you think would happen if the characters made a different choice? Write your prediction.

If instead they had: ________________________

Then this might have happened: ________________________

6. Support Task: Use the word bank to help complete this cause and effect chain.

Word Bank: angry, left, sorry, returned, friends

The cat got __________ → So he __________ → The others felt __________ → The cat __________ → They became __________ again

7. Challenge Task: Create your own cause and effect story chain with at least 3 connections.

8. Extension: How might this story be different if the characters had talked about their feelings instead of arguing? Explain your thinking.