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Cause and Effect
A cause and effect relationship is when something happens that makes something else
happen. In other words, the cause creates the effect. Cause and effect relationships are often
used in informational text.
For example, a text may say that when the weather is cold, a person may start to shiver. The
cold weather here is the cause and the shivering is the effect of the cold weather. Cause and
effect relationships are also found in stories.
For example, if Mae is late to school, she might lose recess time. In that case, being late to

school is the cause and the effect, or result, is her losing recess time. Let’s take a look at this
sentence right here. “The rain came down so hard that all of the leaves fell off the trees.” We
have a cause and effect relationship here. We know what the effect is the leaves fell off the
trees. What’s the cause? The rain. We can say that the cause is heavy rain and the effect of
that is that leaves fell off of the trees.
We have another example. “Billy was skating on a hockey rink. The laces on one of his skates
came loose. He couldn’t control his skating. He ran into another skater and they both fell
down.” We know the effect here is that he ran into another skater. That is the effect. He ran
into another skater and they both fell down. What’s the cause here?
You may be tempted to say that he couldn’t control his skating and that caused him to run into
another skater. While that’s true, the actual cause is that the laces on one of his skates came

loose, which caused him not to be in control of skating, which caused him to run into another
skater, which caused them to both fall down. What started all the dominoes falling over here
was that the laces came loose. That’s a look at cause and effect relationships.