Read & Understand Poetry, Grades 4-5 by Michael Ryall

Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 4–5 contains 27 poem selections organized around these engaging themes:

* Family Album
* Wacky Words
* Verse in Motion
* The Work of Our Hands
* On the Railroad
* Water & Waves
* From the Pages of History
* 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:

* literal comprehension
* sequence
* word meaning
* context clues & inferences
* main idea and details

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.