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|5th - 6th||7th - 8th| |9th - 10th||11th - 12th| Exploring Cause
and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
|Grades||3 – 5| |Lesson Plan Type||Standard Lesson| |Estimated
Time||Three 30- to 45-minute sessions| Expository texts are a
key component of literacy but often do not get introduced to
students until the later grades. This lesson helps third-
through fifth-grade students explore the nature and structure of
expository texts that focus on cause and effect. Students begin
by activating prior knowledge about cause and effect; the
teacher then models discovering these relationsh