Writing Paragraphs Showing Cause and Effect Relationship
1. List down your ideas.
Cause: Many people become careless of the environment.
Effect 1: As a result of this behavior, floods are everywhere during typhoons.
Effect 2: Consequently, people who live near hilly areas are threatened by soil erosion.
Effect 3: As a result, everyone alarmed of possible menaces which people themselves are making.
2. List down your ideas in a graphic organizer
Cause: Many people become careless of the environment.
Effect 1 : As a result of this behavior, floods are everywhere during typhoons.
Effect 2 : Consequently, people who live near hilly areas are threatened by soil erosion.
Effect 3: As a result, everyone alarmed of possible menaces which people themselves are making.
3. Write the sentences in a paragraph.
The paragraph will look like this:
Many people become careless of the environment. As a result of
this behavior, floods are everywhere during typhoons. Consequently,
people who live near hilly areas are threatened by soil erosion. As a
result, everyone alarmed of possible menaces which people
themselves are making.
English 5:
Name: ______________________________________________
Activity 1:
1. Study the following groups of ideas.
2. Write it on the graphic organizer.
3. Write these in one paragraph. Remember to arrange the ideas according to order of events that
took place.
4. Observe indention, punctuation marks and capitalization rules. The rubric below shall be used to
rate your work.
Cause:
• About 75 million people died from the bubonic plague during the 14th century.
Effects:
• Half of the population of Italy fell victim to the disease.
• The plague caused high fever, swollen glands, dark bruises or sores on the face, and spitting
of blood.
• Most people who got the disease died within five days.
• The disease was spread by fleas from rats.
• Lack of sanitation and poor medical knowledge account for the continuous plague epidemics
throughout the 14th century.
Rubric in writing a paragraph.
5 points
Wrote legibly a paragraph
that shows cause-and-effect
relationship of ideas.
Observed indention,
punctuation marks and
capitalization rules.
3 points
Wrote a paragraph that
shows cause-and-effect
relationship with one idea not
connected.
Missed 1-3 rules in indention,
punctuation marks or
capitalization.
1 point
Wrote a paragraph that
shows cause-and-effect
relationship with 2 or more
ideas not connected.
Missed 4 or more rules in
indention, punctuation marks
or capitalization.
Activity 2:
Study the relationship of ideas in the graphic organizer. Organize the ideas in a paragraph to
show cause - and - effect relationship.
Effect 1
They destroy the habitats of fish.
Effect 2
Cause:
Effect 3
Fewer fish can reproduce.
People pollute
rivers.
Fewer fish are born in
fresh water.
Effect 4
The fish population decline.
Make your paragraph.
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Prepared by: LOVELY VENIA M. JOVEN
Class Adviser