Read and Understand Poetry (Gr. 2-3)

Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 2–3 contains 27 poem selections organized around these engaging themes:


• Beasts, Birds, & Bugs

• Seasons & Celebrations

• Stuff & Nonsense

• Step Outside

• Poems in Song

• A World of Sights & Sounds

Included are poems by such well-known poets as Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, 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