Read & Understand Poetry, Grades 4-5 (Read & Understand: Poetry) (Paperback)

Description

Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 4-5 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
• 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
• main idea and details