Text Exemplars Grades 4-5 Poetry

Grade: 4-5

These texts exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Common Core State Standards require all students in grades 4-5 to engage with.

Includes 8 books of poetry:

• A Bird Came Down the Walk (included in Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson)
• Casey at the Bat
• Dust of Snow (included in Robert Frost’s Poems)
• The Echoing Green (included in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience)
• Fog (included in 100 Best-Loved Poems)
• Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (included in Revolting Rhymes)
• The New Colossus (included in Emma’s Poem)
• Words Free As Confetti (included in Confetti)