Assess young learners' ability to identify cause-and-effect relationships and explain characters' actions in short picture-book stories. Tasks include identifying causes and effects from illustrations and text, inferring why a character acted (intentional vs. accidental), sequencing events to show causal chains, and citing simple textual or visual evidence. Designed for Pre-K–Grade 2; includes multiple-choice, short-response, and picture-sequencing items at a medium difficulty level.