Let them see that this skill isn’t just something that author’s put into text, but instead, is something that occurs on a daily basis. Another great tip is to have students generate cause and effect examples! When students recognize true cause and effect examples in their everyday life, they are better equipped to identify them in stories.If students know that the cause had to come first – it brings their thinking from something abstract (cause and effect) to something more concrete and sequential. This has been extremely helpful, even at the beginning stages where students are simply identifying which event out of two is the cause and which is the effect. But when discussing two related events where one caused the other – the cause will always be the FIRST thing that could have happened between those two events. Remind students that the Cause happens first! That doesn’t mean that when reading, the Cause is the first event they will read.
Teach students that when they see a cause and effect signal word, there’s a possibility of a cause and effect relationship happening that we need to be aware of. There are others but these are the most popular.
Signal words for cause and effect are ‘because, so, for, since, as, and due to. Teach students signal words! Using signal words for cause and effect can help students identify WHEN cause and effect situations are happening in a text.Cause and effect is no different! Let’s check out some cause and effect activities that you can use in your elementary classroom!īefore we jump right into our cause and effect activities, I wanted to share with you some of my best tips! Utilizing these tips can help each of your lessons become the most successful. Isolating each skill and focusing on mastering the skill helps students become confident and build their abilities as readers. But just because readers use all of the skills at once doesn’t mean we should teach them all at once. It’s when readers are well versed in all of the skills and can juggle them simultaneously that they truly become a successful reader. Teaching reading is comprised of so many different skills, each one of them as important as the next. MS Word will display any alternative words which you can either select and they will be replaced in your text or reject if you want to keep the original phrases.Įxamples: try to replace phrases with a single words which mean the same.Either select the identified text by clicking with your right mouse button OR click on the down down next to the Conciseness menu.A dotted line will appear under any groups of groups.From the Refinements section - select Conciseness - if there are any suggestions a number will appear in the box alongside this option.If you cannot see the Editor menu a quick tip is to hold down the function (fn key at the bottom left of the keyboard) + F7 (top line of keys).Microsoft Word now has an additional feature within the Editor - it is called conciseness or wordiness. In conclusion therefore to conclude on the whole hence thus to summarise altogether overall …following the research of…after analysis In other terms rather or better in view of this in contrastįirst (ly) second (ly) third (ly) another additionally finally moreover also subsequently eventually next then
However nonetheless furthermore in the final analysis despite x notwithstanding x in spite of x while x may be true, nonethelessĪlthough though after all at the same time even if x is true countįor example for instance namely such as as follows as exemplified by such as including especially particularly in particular notably mainly Therefore accordingly as a result of the result is/results are the consequence is resulting from consequently it can be seen evidence illustrates that because of this thus hence for this reason owing to x this suggests that it follows that otherwise in that case that implies Īs a result of because ( mid-sentence only)īy contrast although compared with conversely despite however, nevertheless yet Whereas conversely in comparison by contrast another view is… Īlternatively although otherwise instead.
Additional comments or ideasĪdditionally also moreover furthermore again further then besides too similarly correspondingly indeed regarding. When the transition word is at the beginning of the sentence, it should be followed by a comma:Īmong other functions, they can signal cause and effect or sequencing (see examples in the table below). Transitions link one main idea to another separated by a semi-colon or full-stop.
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