Making Waves: Cause, Effect and Speaking Up

A speech and language lesson for grades 3 to 5 set at summer lake camp. Wren and her cousin Mateo try paddleboarding. Students work out what similes and phrases like "legs turned to jelly" mean, explain why Mateo fell in and what made the waves, match causes to effects, infer the plan from the coach's text message, choose how to ask when you miss directions, pick the verb for one or many, find the main idea, retell the day in order and tap every smart water-safety habit. Every passage and question has a read-aloud button.

• 14 scenes with read-aloud on every passage and question
• A lake camp story told in short parts
• Matching, a dropdown, fill-in blanks, story ordering and a tap-the-habit conveyor

• Explain what similes and phrases like "legs turned to jelly" mean
• Tell how one event in a story causes another
• Make an inference from a short text message
• Ask a clear question when you miss directions
• Use the right verb for one or many and retell a story in order