Read and Understand Poetry ( Gr. 3-4)

Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 3–4 contains 26 poem selections organized around these engaging themes:

• Through the Eyes of a Child

• Nature’s Mysteries

• Poetic Forms

• North, South, East, West

• Fanciful Fun

• Stories in Verse

Included are poems by such well-known poets as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Rachel Field, Lewis Carroll, 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