CurriculumGrade 5English Language Arts

How Ideas Connect

Aligned to RI.5.3 — Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.

What this lesson teaches

Nonfiction often shows how people, events, or ideas affect one another. Look for links like cause and effect or one step leading to another.

Worked example

A text explains that heavy rain filled the river, the river flooded the fields, and the flood ruined the crops — each event causes the next.

Practice questions

  1. Name a cause and its effect from an article.
  2. Explain how two events in a text are linked.
  3. Describe how one idea led to another in what you read.

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Cómo se Conectan las Ideas

Los textos informativos suelen mostrar cómo las personas, los sucesos o las ideas se afectan entre sí. Busca conexiones como causa y efecto o un paso que lleva a otro.

Ejemplo: Un texto explica que la lluvia intensa llenó el río, el río inundó los campos y la inundación arruinó los cultivos — cada suceso causa el siguiente.

More Reading: Informational lessons

Comparing Text StructureRI.5.5Quoting Facts & Making InferencesRI.5.1Two Main Ideas & a SummaryRI.5.2Cracking Content WordsRI.5.4Two Accounts of One EventRI.5.6Using Many Sources to Find AnswersRI.5.7

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