Cause & Effect

Cause and effect can help writing sentence with a structure of an explanation.

The cause is why something happens and the effect is what happens. For example: The heat in the oven cooks the meat. 

Causal language can be used when writing a cause and effect. They are: because, when, if then, in order to, therefore, this causes or this results in, as a result, consequently, and the reason for that.

For example: It rained for three hours THEREFORE the park was flooded.

Below is a mix and match activity to match the right cause and effect with the correct causal language.

Cause and Effect can simply explain a mechanism, and then more detail can be added.