You’ll Love These Hands-On Cause and Effect Comprehension Worksheets

Engage your students with these thoughtful cause and effect comprehension worksheets!Perfect for elementary learners, this activity set centers around a relatable story of a young girl who finds comfort during a thunderstorm. 

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension and critical thinking skills with multiple cause and effect activities. With an answer key included, it’s easy for teachers to guide and assess learning.

What’s included in these cause and effect comprehension worksheets:

• Thunderstorm story page
• Cut-and-paste activity
• Short answer activity
• Answer key

Using This Cause and Effect Activity in the Classroom

This cause and effect activity is easy to prepare and use. Here’s how!

Preparation:

1. Download the cause and effect comprehension worksheets in your preferred format. 
2. Print a copy of the story and the matching worksheets for each student. Alternatively, project the story on your interactive whiteboard.
3. Provide students with scissors, glue, and pencils. 

Student Instructions: 

1. Begin by reading the short story.
2. Next, cut out the causes and effects from Worksheet 1.
3. Match each cause to its corresponding effect, arranging them in the order they appear in the story.
4. Once matched, glue the ordered pairs onto Page 2.
5. Wrap up the activity by completing the “More Causes and Effects” worksheet, where you will be asked to come up with your own causes and effects related to the story.

Download This Cause and Effect Comprehension Activity

This cause and effect comprehension activity is available as both a PDF and editable Google Slides file. To download, simply click the drop-down arrow on the download button and choose the format that works best for you.

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher from Florida and a Teach Starter collaborator.

Additional Cause and Effect Reading Comprehension Worksheets

We have more cause and effect reading comprehension worksheets and activities where these came from! Take a look at a few below. 

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