Description
This is a bundle of story puzzles or pre-readers (or young kids).
The idea is simple.
- Every puzzle is a story told by 5–7 different illustrations, which you must cut out.
- The story has a clear “cause and effect” that puzzlers need to figure out! Something happened, which meant this other thing happened, which caused this ending to the story. Example: you left ice cream out in the sun, now it melted.
- You’ve solved the puzzle if you can place the illustrations on the timeline in the correct order.
It’s essentially a full version of our “Timeline Task” formula found in earlier (teaching) materials. Some other improvements we’ve made are …
- To allow easy answer checks, placing the images in the right order also spells a simple and related word.
- The puzzles are color-coded, so you always know which images/story belonged to which task.
- We’ve added the actual written story (per puzzle) too, which you can read to the players as confirmation, or which slightly older readers can try to read themselves for practice.
They’re a great textless way to get used to stories and have fun thinking about common situations and their consequences. For more practice with stories, and considering consequences of actions, it’s of course best to just read as many stories as possible and experience many different things in the real world.
And yes, Cows & Effox is just a bad pun on Cause & Effect. We’re not sorry.
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Product Contents
- Front Page explaining how it works and how to play
- 14 pages with a story puzzle each (increasing in difficulty)
Fine Details
| Detail | Value |
| Age | 4 |
| Categories | stories, cause-and-effect |
| Duration | 60 |
| Language | en |
| Level | 1 |
| Subject | language |
| Textless | true |
Subject: Language
The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.
This resource is part of the Language subject. Below is a summary:
This subject teaches the English language! From an Apprentice’s first utterances to being able to read any book and write their own stories.
Faction: Puzzlepages
This resource is part of the Puzzlepages Faction.
But that's just one way to teach and explore its topic(s)!
You can always move to a different Faction to find a more effective way to teach the same topic.
Played a quiz? Try a game! Played a game? Try an escape room! And so on.
For example,
Charm: Educational Puzzle
This product is part of the Educational Puzzle charm.
Visit its main page to learn more about what that means. Below is a summary:
Educational Puzzles are logic puzzles meant to build and strengthen specific skills. They are physical puzzles that must be played with pen and paper or by moving physical pieces.
Famous examples of such puzzles are Sudokus or Crosswords, but our resources show you can take it much further.
Spell: My First Stories
This resource is part of the My First Stories topic (or "spell").
Simple stories are a great way to teach vocabulary to pre-readers. You can read stories to Apprentices, but most people will already invent their own stories from a young age. An added benefit is the fact that stories are fun and exciting, can include lots of other details about the world, and teach about cause and effect.
Use the buttons below to navigate to the previous or next topic in the curriculum.