How to Make a Bird Feeder from a Pine Cone

Questions

1. Sequence What is the first step?

   Tie a long piece of string around the top of the pine cone. Press extra seeds into any bare spots. Roll the pine cone in a plate of birdseed. Hang the feeder on a branch you can see from a window.
2. Sequence What is the last step?

   Spread shortening into the gaps of the pine cone with the butter knife. Tie a long piece of string around the top of the pine cone. Hang the feeder on a branch you can see from a window. Roll the pine cone in a plate of birdseed.
3. Sequence What do you do right after this step: "Spread shortening into the gaps of the pine cone with the butter knife."

   Tie a long piece of string around the top of the pine cone. Hang the feeder on a branch you can see from a window. Roll the pine cone in a plate of birdseed. Spread shortening into the gaps of the pine cone with the butter knife.
4. Cause and effect Why do you do this step: "Spread shortening into the gaps of the pine cone with the butter knife."

   To add weight. Because seeds need water to start growing. So it is easy to eat. So the seeds have something to stick to.
5. Details Which of these do you need?

   birdseed two chairs clean water potting soil
6. Author's purpose Why did the author write this text?

   to explain how to make a simple bird feeder to explain how to make a needle point north to explain how to grow a bean plant from a seed to describe an animal
7. Text features Why are the steps numbered?

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

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

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