Links in a Chain: Creating a Cause and Effect Gallery

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Objective

SWBAT use the Internet to find their own cause and effect images and then combine them to create a chain of events.

Big Idea

Creating a chain of events from pictures provides scaffolding leading up to the creation of cause and effect text structure.

Lesson Author

Jody Barnes

Columbus, OH

Grade Level

Fourth grade

Subjects

English / Language Arts

Reading

Comprehension (Reading)

Standards

RL.4.10

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

RI.4.5

Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.

RI.4.10

By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as necessary at the high end of the range.

SL.4.4

Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

Finding the Links: Activity Introduction

10 minutes

When students enter the room, I have displayed on the Smart board the images used in the Gallery Walk lesson. I tell the students that today they are going to make their own projects for the gallery.

I use the images to demonstrate how, in texts, events are chained together. Everything has a cause and an effect and, in fact, an effect in one instance could become a cause in the next instant. I explain to them that they won't find isolated causes and events and when they do see them they won't be in neat little boxes.

Forging the Links: Creating the Chain

40 minutes

Students will work with a partner to choose at least three of the pictures to create a chain of events. In order to create the chain, they will need to have copies of the pictures and cut and glue them onto paper or a variety of materials to display their creation. I offered string and clothespins, crepe paper, large construction paper and sentence strips. I also had an arrow pattern for the students to cut and include in their project to show the progression between the pictures. Of course I chose three pictures and modeled how they could all go together as well as how I wanted it presented- in sentence format.

We created our rubric and then I let the students choose their own partners and get started.

Displaying the Chains

10 minutes

Reflection: Providing Scaffolding

After the students finish up their chain of events, it is time to share. I ask for volunteers to present their chain projects and read their cause and effect sentences. As a class, we use a "Glow and a Grow" structure to help assess students' performance on their project.

After all students have shared, we hang the projects in the hall so everyone can enjoy a gallery walk.

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