Read & Understand Poetry, Grades 4-5

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.