Cause & Effect

Master cause and effect with our Grade 8 ELA worksheet!

Growing Up in Darfur Cause Effect Match the causes (on the left) to the effects (on the right) People had to run for their lives Refugees arrived with only the clothes on their backs Victims of the fighting needed safety Refugee camps were set up Armed fighters attacked the village Sumaya's family left the farm Conditions at the camp are bleak with few supplies People sleep on the ground The refugees cannot grow anything in the camp They eat brown, watery soup for most meals Cause Effect Words because due to reason Sequence first after next Description an example such as characteristics Compare Contrast similarly on the other hand as opposed to Sentence Stems: A cause always happens first, and the effect comes from the cause. Sometimes authors mix it up, though, and write the effect BEFORE the cause. Think about the following sentence stems and decide if the cause or effect is listed first. 1. The ghost was spooky (cause), so we all ran away (effect)! 2. We all ran away (effect) because the ghost was spooky (cause). 3. The reason we all ran away (effect) is that the ghost was spooky (cause). 4. Because the ghost was spooky (cause), we all ran away (effect).