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