Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 2–3 contains 27 poem selections organized around these engaging themes: • Beasts, Birds, & Bugs • Seasons & Celebrations • Stuff & Nonsense • Step Outside • Poems in Song • A World of Sights & Sounds Included are poems by such well-known poets as Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, 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