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