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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music

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A classroom should be filled with a wide variety of languages, experiences, and culturally diversity. Books are a great way to incorporate and expose children to different cultures, themes, people of different races, religions, abilities, and family structures. Reading books that highlight diversity can assist educators in providing a safe caring environment that builds students’ backgrounds in reading, while focusing and establishing equality for each individual student. According to the author of Creating Literacy Instruction for all Students, diversity that is produced by the differences in students should be respected, valued, and built on. (Gunning 49) Teachers can incorporate diversity, show interest in different ethnic backgrounds, …show more content…

Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, fights to become a drummer, despite being frequently reminded that only boys can play the drums. Engles beautiful rhythmic story not only focuses on a Cuban girl who fights gender norms to become one of Cuba’s most famous drummers, but it also emphasis the Cuban culture and gender diversity. Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music gives 1st and 2nd grade students many opportunities to visualize the Cuban culture, and connect to the story. As the teacher reads Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music aloud with rhythmic intonation, students are transported to the streets of Cuba where they visualize Millo’s dreams. Students can close their eyes while the story is being read, and imagine music, drummers, and dancing in the streets of Cuba. Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music is a remarkable tool that can help a teacher facilitating a conversation that aids students in connections to the story, and give the students an opportunity to gain knowledge and respect for divers background. Moreover, Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music will allow students a chance to make text- to -world connections as they connect to the more abstract concept that everyone, even in different counties with different backgrounds, has a dream of what they want to be in

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