Daily Reading Comprehension Week 1 Day 5: Cowboy Poetry

The original cowboy poets based their poetry style on______.

• country music songs

• traditional poetry

• experiences from city life

• art and music festivals

From the passage, you can predict that in the future, ___________.

• cowboy poetry will become as popular as it once was.

• more people will choose to become cowboys

• National Poetry Month will exclude cowboy poetry

• people will continue to write and appreciate cowboy poetry.

Which of these was a typical topic of historical cowboy poetry?

• poetry festivals

• benefits of technology

• the Civil War

• the western landscape

Cowboy poetry is most likely still being written today because _____.

• there are still many working cowboys in the United States.

• country musicians need cowboy poems in order to write songs.

• many people are working hard to promote cowboy poetry.

• poets want to show their lyrical skills