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We made a cause and effect video. Why? Cause we wanted to have a positive effect on your brain of course.
Transcript
- 00:05
[Dino and Coop singing]
- 00:13
What exactly is “cause and effect”?
- 00:15
And what might…cause us to care about it?
- 00:18
Well, let’s start by defining the terms and go from there… [Girl looking confused]
- 00:20
A cause is an event or action that makes another event take place. [Coop pointing at a blackboard]
Full Transcript
- 00:24
It’s the “why” something happens.
- 00:26
For example, Jane pushed Jack on the playground. [Jack falls over]
- 00:29
Way to go, Jane.
- 00:30
An effect is something that happens because something else happened first. [Dino pointing at a blackboard]
- 00:34
It’s the “what happened” part.
- 00:36
In the case of our good friends Jack and Jane…it would be the fact that Jack fell down and [Jack's knee is bleeding]
- 00:40
scraped his knee.
- 00:41
He fell, which is “what happened” because of what Jane did—she pushed him.
- 00:45
That’s his story, and he’s sticking to it.
- 00:48
When you’re reading, it’s important to think about the “why” and the “what [Jack in the principal's office]
- 00:51
happened because of the why”.
- 00:52
Okay, that’s a wordy way of putting it, but you catch our drift.
- 00:55
It’s especially important to think about these things when it comes to characters—why
- 00:59
they did something, and the consequences of their actions. [Jane sees the principal in the corridor]
- 01:01
Would a character have done something differently to get a different result?
- 01:05
Did she know what was going to happen when she acted?
- 01:07
Or was the character too busy mulling over “why”s and “what”s to pay attention? [Jane walks into a rock]
- 01:12
Thinking about cause and effect really helps us better understand character perspective…
- 01:15
… which is an important part of reading comprehension.
- 01:17
We don’t just want to know that Mr. Wonka handed over the keys to his chocolate factory… [Boy looks happy holding the key]
- 01:21
…we want to understand what could possibly have possessed him to voluntarily give up [Mr. Wonka at the doctors]
- 01:25
that much chocolate…
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