Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 2-3

Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 23 contains 27 poem selections organized around these engaging themes: Beasts, Birds, & Bugs, Seasons & Celebrations, Stuff & Nonsense, Step Outside, Poems in Song, and 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, and main idea and details.