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

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

2, 3, 4

Overview

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 strip and publish and present their completed piece to peers in a read-aloud format.

    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

    ELA21.2.27

    Identify the text structures within literary and informational texts, including cause and effect, problem and solution, and sequence of events.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.2.27

    Vocabulary

    • Text structures
    • Literary texts
    • Informational texts
    • Cause and effect
    • Problem and solution
    • Sequence of events

    Knowledge

    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

    Students are able to:
    • Identify the text structure of literary texts.
    • Identify the text structure of informational texts.

    Understanding

    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 (2021) Grade(s): 2

    ELA21.2.40

    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

    UP:ELA21.2.40

    Vocabulary

    • Personal narrative
    • Fictional narrative
    • Logical
    • Sequence of events
    • Details
    • Actions
    • Thoughts
    • Feelings
    • Closure

    Knowledge

    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

    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

    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 (2021) Grade(s): 3

    ELA21.3.24

    Identify the text structures within literary and informational texts.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.3.24

    Vocabulary

    • Identify
    • Text structures
    • Literary text
    • Informational text

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Literary and informational texts follow predictable structures.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Identify the text structure of literary texts.
    • Identify the text structure of informational texts.

    Understanding

    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 (2021) Grade(s): 3

    ELA21.3.33

    Write personal or fictional narratives with a logical plot (sequence of events), characters, transitions, and a sense of closure.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.3.33

    Vocabulary

    • Personal narrative
    • Fictional narrative
    • Logical plot
    • Sequence of events
    • Characters
    • Transitions
    • Closure

    Knowledge

    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

    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

    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 (2021) Grade(s): 4

    ELA21.4.35

    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

    UP:ELA21.4.35

    Vocabulary

    • Personal narratives
    • Fictional narratives
    • Logical plot
    • Transitional words and phrases
    • Sensory details
    • Dialogue
    • Closure

    Knowledge

    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

    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

    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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