Cause and Effect Essay Writing Activities & Graphic Organizers for Grades 8

This resource is a powerful text analysis and essay package with everything you’ll need to teach your students how to write a cause and effect essay. Packed with activities for analyzing and deconstructing a sample essay on climate change, your students will use scaffolded text analysis questions to learn and study about how one is written from the bottom-up. With differentiated essay writing activities and advanced graphic organizers that show how to structure a masterful essay, this package is perfect for any teacher looking for a low-prep, high-impact way to teach their students how to write a great cause and effect essay.

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This Cause and Effect Essay Writing package includes a suite of writing activities that are perfect for grade 8-11 students who need practice writing essays:

  • textual analysis questions
  • key essay language
  • station tasks & task cards
  • structure analysis
  • summary practice
  • brainstorming practice
  • supporting idea(s) practice
  • identifying causes and effects
  • a variety of cause and effect essay writing prompts

The writing activities are ideal for English Language Arts classes or with ELL and ESL learners who are studying cause and effect writing in grades 8 through 11. They can be used for supplementary material, homework, or as a separate classroom lesson on text analysis and essay writing.

✅ The Most Impactful Way to Teach Essay Writing: Have your students go deeper into the design of the text by reverse-engineering it! This resource uses text analysis questions to help learners deconstruct a cause and effect essay paragraph-by-paragraph. By answering questions about a sample essay’s context, use of language, and structure, students get to think critically about the choices the author made in the writing and learn the essay’s structure organically. It will teach them how to write an essay from the bottom-up.

✅ Graphic Organizers for Essay Writing: Your students will love the step-by-step guidance offered in the graphic organizer. They’ll get suggested paragraph lengths, structure, and language tips as they prepare and, eventually, write their own cause and effect essays. There are even different essay writing prompts they can choose from!

✅ Essay Writing Practice using Task Cards: Included in this essay writing package are 20 different essay writing activities for practicing different parts of a cause and effect essay. Presented on task cards, your students can use these to practice…

  • summarizing
  • brainstorming
  • restating a writing prompt
  • identifying cause and effect
  • writing supporting ideas

✅ Keep the Class Engaged with a Catchy Topic: Don’t worry about your students getting off task when having to study essay writing. They’ll get a sample cause and effect essay that discusses the relevant issue of climate change. You’ll love how this topic meets them halfway by engaging them in something all students in the world are concerned about.

✅ No Planning; Just Teaching: Get your prep-time back by using a pre-planned lesson plan, included in the purchase. The lesson plan is incredibly easy-to-use and gives you ideas on how to introduce the essay topic in a fun way, a pacing structure that scaffolds the learning for you, different teaching ideas for cause and effect, and answer keys. Simply print out the student pages and follow the pre-planned lesson plan.

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This package includes a PDF file that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. It also comes with a lesson plan and a high-resolution cover page.

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You may also be interested in my Cause and Effect Text Structure Reading Passages.

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