Create an effective organizing structure based on research information (e.g., description, problem-solution, question-answer, comparison-contrast, cause-effect). 0601.4.14

Links verified on 6/9/2014

1. Evaluation Station - Evaluate a story that you have written.
2. Adverb Clauses: Cause and Effect Relationships - complete the statement to create a cause and effect
3. Cause and Effect Transitions - Combine two sentences using connecting words to show cause and effect.
4. Cause and Effect - Quia Quiz
5. Cause and Effect Pretest - Short passages to read, followed by questions, after taking the pretest try another Pre test [these expired pages are from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine.]
6. Cause and Effect quizzes - Quiz One | Quiz Two | Quiz Three | Quiz Four | Quiz Five
7. Cause and Effect Sheet - Read passage online and answer questions on paper
8. Making The Relationship Explicit Between Your Ideas - from UniLearning - Academic Writing
9. Stated Information - story about elephants followed by a quiz
10. Stated Information - story about dolphins followed by a quiz
11. What Caused It? - identify cause and effect patterns in text (science content is used to teach this reading skill)

Compare Contrast

1. Aesop's Fables - Two versions of each story to compare and contrast.
2. Compare and Contrast - Select two works of art from a list of 26. Then click the "Begin Essay" button in the selection box that displays your selections to write your own short essay comparing the works of art. This is a display from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
3. Compare or Contrast? - Which is it? Read the sentence and decide whether you are comparing or contrasting
4. A Fishy Story - [not interactive] Read the story online, then answer questions in Word or Works, or on paper.
5. Practice with Comparison and Contrast - lab activity to find and organize similarities and differences
6. Test Tutor - compare and contrast practice

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