5th grade students are working on writing cause and effect stories. We have talked a lot about cause and effect after reading some biographies of famous leaders. We have looked at how particular words and phrases signal to the reader/listener that there is a cause/effect relationship. We call these words and phrases 'Signal Words'.
Students have listened to a funny story about cause and effect, "If You Give a Pig a Pancake" by Laura Numeroff, and are now writing their own humorous stories following a similar pattern. In these stories, students are using signal words to mark the cause/effect relationships. Ask your child to share their cause/effect story with you at home.