Read & Understand Poetry, Grades 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.