Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 3–4 contains 26 poem selections organized around these engaging themes:

• Through the Eyes of a Child
• Nature’s Mysteries
• Poetic Forms
• North, South, East, West
• Fanciful Fun
• Stories in Verse

Included are poems by such well-known poets as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Rachel Field, Lewis Carroll, 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