Text Exemplars Grades 2-3 Read-Aloud Poetry

These texts exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Common Core State Standards require all students in grades 2-3 to engage with.

Includes:
• Fireflies (included in Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices)

• The Jublies (included in Poetry for Young People: Edward Lear)

• The Pied Piper of Hamelin (included in My Last Duchess and Other Poems)

• The Song of the Jellicles (included in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)

• Your World (included in Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art)

Common Core standards covered:
RL.2-3.1-10, RI.2-3.1-10