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 This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.