Read & Understand Poetry, Grades 4-5

Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 45 contains 27 poem selections organized around these engaging themes: Family Album, Wacky Words, Verse in Motion, The Work of Our Hands, On the Railroad, Water & Waves, From the Pages of History, and Celebrate! Included are poems by such well-known poets as Edward Lear; Walt Whitman; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Pat Mora. The first follow-up activity emulates the format students are likely to encounter on standardized language arts tests. Item content covers: literal comprehension, sequence, word meaning, context clues & inferences, and main idea and details.