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Room for Bluebirds: Linking Reasons in a Nest Box Proposal

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Room for Bluebirds: Linking Reasons in a Nest Box Proposal

Help Tomás connect his opinion and reasons with linking words, phrases, and clauses.

Choose the link

Tomás wants the town to put up bluebird nest boxes beside the soccer fields at Alder Park. He is writing a proposal to the town's park committee. His reasons are strong, but his ideas are not linked yet. Read his notes, then help him link his opinion and reasons.

Tomás's notes about bluebirds
• Eastern bluebirds nest in holes, such as old woodpecker holes in dead trees or wooden fence posts.
• Bluebirds cannot dig nest holes on their own.
• Many dead trees are cut down, so there are fewer holes for nesting.
• Bluebirds often perch on a post or branch and then drop down to catch insects in short grass.
• In many places, nest boxes have helped bluebirds raise more young.
1.
Match each linking word or phrase to the job it does.
2.
Which linking word or phrase best fits the blank?
Bluebirds cannot dig their own nest holes. ______ they must find holes that are already there.
Question 2 options
3.
Which linking word best fits the blank?
Bluebirds eat many kinds of insects. ______ they catch grasshoppers, beetles, and caterpillars.
Question 3 options
4.
Which clause best links Tomás's reason to his opinion?
Our park should put up bluebird nest boxes ______.
Question 4 options
5.
Which sentence links the cause and its result correctly?
Question 5 options
6.
Writers link ideas with words, phrases, and clauses. A clause has a subject and a verb. A phrase is a group of words without both. Sort each link.

Revise the proposal

Help Tomás finish his paragraph, then write some links of your own.

7.
Complete Tomás's revised paragraph. Use each word or phrase from the bank once.

Our park should put up bluebird nest boxes beside the soccer fields. Bluebirds need holes to nest in, and many old trees with holes have been cut down. , the birds have fewer places to raise their young. Nest boxes would give them safe homes. , the fields are a good place for bluebirds to find food. , the birds could perch on the boxes and drop down to catch insects in the short grass. Some people may worry that the boxes would cost too much. , our nature club can build them from scrap wood. , I hope the committee will vote yes.

8.
Join these two sentences with consequently. Write your new sentence.
Bluebirds hunt insects in open, grassy places. The soccer fields are a good spot for nest boxes.
9.
Tomás wrote, "Families could help take care of the nest boxes." Add a sentence that begins with Specifically to tell exactly how families could help.
10.
Write one more reason the park should put up nest boxes. Link it to the opinion with a clause that begins with because or since.