How to Make a Fruit Salad

Questions

1. Sequence What is the first step?

   With a grown-up, peel any fruit that needs it. Stir gently with the spoon. Wash your hands and the fruit. Put all the pieces in the bowl.
2. Sequence What is the last step?

   Stir gently with the spoon. Cut the fruit into bite-sized pieces on the cutting board. Put all the pieces in the bowl. Chill the bowl in the fridge before serving.
3. Sequence What do you do right after this step: "Cut the fruit into bite-sized pieces on the cutting board."

   Put all the pieces in the bowl. Cut the fruit into bite-sized pieces on the cutting board. With a grown-up, peel any fruit that needs it. Stir gently with the spoon.
4. Cause and effect Why do you do this step: "With a grown-up, peel any fruit that needs it."

   Because some peels are tough or bitter. So the air rushes out and pushes the balloon the other way. Because wet flowers can go moldy. To press it flat.
5. Details Which of these do you need?

   a small pot a drinking straw a clear, straight-sided jar a cutting board
6. Author's purpose Why did the author write this text?

   to explain how to build a rain gauge and measure rain to explain how to make a fruit salad with a grown-up to explain how to fold a simple paper airplane to explain how to make a simple bird feeder
7. Text features Why are the steps numbered?

   to show the order to do them in to show which step is most important to show how long each step takes to count the materials
8. Inference What would probably happen if you skipped a step?

   The project might not work as well. The steps would be in a new order. Nothing would change at all. You would finish with extra materials.

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