Read and 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