Pages 1 to 4 each hold a short text with its questions: steps in order, cause and effect, a chain of causes, and two animals compared. Page 5 asks how each sentence links its ideas, and page 6 works with any nonfiction text: a cause and the effects it leads to.
Before reading, list the signal words on the board in three groups: order, cause and effect, and comparing. Have children circle each signal word they find in a text and say which group it belongs to.
Read a text together and ask "What happened first? What happened because of that?" Point out words like because, so and as a result.
Short texts about how ants find food, why emperor penguins huddle, how sea otters save kelp forests and how to tell alligators from crocodiles, written at a 3rd grade level. Children follow steps in order, trace causes to their effects, compare two animals and find the signal words that link the ideas.
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