Year 3 prepositions of cause worksheet and PowerPoint

Prepositions of cause

A preposition of cause tells you why. It is followed by a noun: because of the rain, due to the snow, thanks to our teacher.

Examples

• She was late on account of the bus strike.
• The roads were closed owing to the ice.

Key words

preposition of cause

says why

preposition

shows how a noun is related to another word

prepositional phrase

a preposition and the noun that follows it

What is on the worksheet

Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.

All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.

Writing challenge: Write six sentences that give a reason. Use because of, due to, owing to or thanks to in each one.

Pupil target: I can use prepositions of cause.

The PowerPoint

A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the prepositions of cause PowerPoint.

Where this lesson fits

This is lesson 29 of 53 in the Year 3 SPaG scheme, in the block “Prepositions”.

Other lessons in this block

• What is a preposition?
• Prepositional phrases
• Prepositions of time
• Prepositions of place
• Prepositions of time, place and cause

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