Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 45 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