Why did Carla shut the window? Why did Benny feed his puppy? Why did the train blow its whistle? Why did Mom's car have a flat tire? Young readers consider cause and effect relationships in order to draw inferences from four situations and then illustrate each one.

Concepts

making inferences

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the first prompt to model how to use the wroksheet

Classroom Considerations

• The seventh in a series of 22 worksheets providing practice for making inferences

Pros

• The worksheet models how to use cause and effect relationships to draw inferences

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.2.1 RL.3.1 RL.4.1 RL.5.1