Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 2-3 contains 27 poem selections organized around these engaging themes:

• Beasts, Birds, & Bugs
• Seasons & Celebrations
• Stuff & Nonsense
• Step Outside
• Poems in Song
• 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
• main idea and details