Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 4–5 contains 27 poem selections organized around these engaging themes:
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Family Album
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Wacky Words
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Verse in Motion
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The Work of Our Hands
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On the Railroad
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Water & Waves
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From the Pages of History
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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:
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literal comprehension
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sequence
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word meaning
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context clues & inferences
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main idea and details
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