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Engaging With Cause-and-Effect Relationships Through Creating Comic Strips

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Engaging With Cause-and-Effect Relationships Through Creating Comic Strips

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In order to fully comprehend reading materials, students need to understand the cause-and-effect relationships that appear in a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts. In this lesson, students learn cause-and-effect relationships through the sharing of a variety of Laura Joffe Numeroff picture books in a Reader's Workshop format. Using online tools or a printed template, students create an original comic strip via the writing prompt, “If you take a (third) grader to….” Students use various kinds of art to illustrate their strips and publish and present their completed pieces to peers in a read-aloud format.

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English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 2	27. Identify the text structures within literary and informational texts, including cause and effect, problem and solution, and sequence of events. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 27. Text structures Literary texts Informational texts Cause and effect Problem and solution Sequence of events Knowledge: 27. Students know: Literary and informational texts follow predictable structures. Cause and effect text structure describes an event (the cause) and the consequence or result of the event (the effect). Problem and solution text structure describes a problem and how the problem was solved or could be solved. Sequence of events is the order of events within a text. Skills: 27. Students are able to: Identify the text structure of literary texts. Identify the text structure of informational texts. Understanding: 27. Students understand that: Identifying the text structure of literary and informational texts will set a purpose for their reading and improve their comprehension.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 2	40. Write a personal or fictional narrative using a logical sequence of events, including details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings and providing a sense of closure. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 40. Personal narrative Fictional narrative Logical Sequence of events Details Actions Thoughts Feelings Closure Knowledge: 40. Students know: A narrative is a piece of writing that tells a story. A narrative story describes a sequence of events in a logical order (beginning, middle, end). A narrative story describes the actions, thoughts, and feelings of the characters. Skills: 40. Students are able to: Write a personal narrative that recalls a personal experience or write a fictional narrative with a made-up story. Write a narrative with a logical sequence of events and provide details that describe how the character feels, acts, and thinks. Write a narrative that ends with a sense of closure. Understanding: 40. Students understand that: Narrative writing includes predictable elements, like a logical sequence of events and an ending that provides the reader with a sense of closure. Narrative writing can be used to tell about something that happened to them personally or it can tell a story they made up.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	24. Identify the text structures within literary and informational texts. a. Explain how the structures, including comparison and contrast, sequence of events, problem and solution, and cause and effect, contribute to the meaning of the text, using textual evidence. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 24. Identify Text structures Literary text Informational text 24a. Text structures Comparison and contrast Sequence of events Problem and solution Cause and effect Contribute Textual evidence Knowledge: 24. Students know: Literary and informational texts follow predictable structures. 24a. Compare means tell how things are similar, and contrast means tell how things are different. Sequence of events is the chronological order of events within a text. Problem and solution text structure describes a problem and how the problem was solved or could be solved. Cause and effect text structure describes an event (the cause) and the consequence or result of the event (the effect). They have to use quotations from the text to prove their answers. Skills: 24. Students are able to: Identify the text structure of literary texts. Identify the text structure of informational texts. 24a. Explain how text structures contribute to the meaning of the text. Provide textual evidence to support their explanation. Understanding: 24. Students understand that: Identifying the text structure of literary and informational texts will set a purpose for their reading and improve their comprehension. 24a. Texts follow a predictable structure that contributes to the overall meaning of the text. They can demonstrate their comprehension of a text by using textual evidence to support their explanations.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	33. Write personal or fictional narratives with a logical plot (sequence of events), characters, transitions, and a sense of closure. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 33. Personal narrative Fictional narrative Logical plot Sequence of events Characters Transitions Closure Knowledge: 33. Students know: A narrative is a piece of writing that tells a story. A personal narrative tells about an event that was personally experienced by the author, while a fictional narrative tells a made up story. A narrative story describes a sequence of events in a logical order (beginning, middle, end) and provides a sense of closure as an ending. A narrative story describes the actions, thoughts, and feelings of the characters. Narrative transitions indicate when and where the story is occurring. Skills: 33. Students are able to: Write a personal narrative that recalls a personal experience or a fictional narrative with a made-up story. Write a narrative with a logical sequence of events and details that describe how the characters feels, acts, and thinks. Use appropriate transitions in narrative writing. Write a narrative that ends with a sense of closure. Understanding: 33. Students understand that: Narrative writing includes predictable elements, like a logical sequence of events and an ending that provides the reader with a sense of closure. Because narrative writing describes a chronological sequence of events, it includes transitions that indicate the time and place in which the story is occurring. Narrative writing can be used to tell about something that happened to them personally or it can tell a story they made up.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 4	35. Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical plot, transitional words and phrases, sensory details, and dialogue, and providing a sense of closure. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 35. Personal narratives Fictional narratives Logical plot Transitional words and phrases Sensory details Dialogue Closure Knowledge: 35. Students know: A narrative is a piece of writing that tells a story. A personal narrative tells about an event that was personally experienced by the author, while a fictional narrative tells a made up story. A narrative story describes a sequence of events in a logical order (beginning, middle, end) and provides a sense of closure as an ending. Narrative transitions indicate when and where the story is occurring. Sensory details use descriptions of the five senses. Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people. Skills: 35. Students are able to: Write a personal narrative that recalls a personal experience or a fictional narrative with a made-up story. Write a narrative with a logical sequence of events and sensory details. Use appropriate transitional words and phrases in narrative writing. Include dialogue in narrative writing. Write a narrative that ends with a sense of closure. Understanding: 35. Students understand that: Narrative writing includes predictable elements, like a logical sequence of events and an ending that provides the reader with a sense of closure. Because narrative writing describes a chronological sequence of events, it includes transitions that indicate the time and place in which the story is occurring. Narrative writing can be used to tell about something that happened to them personally or it can tell a story they made up.

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cause and effect, Comic Creator, comic strip, fiction, Laura Joffe Numeroff, nonfiction

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Engaging With Cause-and-Effect Relationships Through Creating Comic Strips