Text Structure Lesson: Cause-Effect vs. Problem-Solution, Grades 5-6

"Because the tire went flat, I was late" and "My tire kept going flat, so I patched the hole" both use a cause word. Only one of them is about fixing something. This lesson teaches the pair students mix up most with a two-question test: Is someone trying to fix something? Does one thing make another happen?

What's inside

• 16 slides, with speaker notes on all 16
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Reading passage, 1 page: six short paragraphs
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• All printables in one ready-to-print PDF, 6 pages

Answer key included

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