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
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.