Cause and Effect

This focused reading comprehension worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen their understanding of cause-and-effect relationships within narrative text. After reading a passage about a school play, students answer multiple-choice questions that ask them to identify why certain events happened by interpreting clues and details from the story.

Learning Goals

• Cause & Effect Relationships (Grades 4-6): Identify reasons events occur and link actions to outcomes.
• Narrative Reading Comprehension: Track how story events unfold and influence one another.
• Logical Thinking & Inference: Use textual clues to determine underlying causes.
• Evidence-Based Reasoning: Support answers by connecting choices to details in the passage.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA standards.
• Strengthens Careful Reading: Encourages students to look for “why” clues, not just “what happened.”
• Assessment-Ready Format: Multiple-choice questions mirror common comprehension tasks.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for literacy centers, guided reading, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students deepen comprehension by practicing how to connect actions with consequences in a story. By identifying causes behind key events, learners strengthen logical reasoning, inference skills, and overall narrative understanding. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with cause-and-effect analysis and thoughtful reading.

This worksheet is part of our multiple choice reading passages worksheets collection.