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

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

by Margarita Engle

Reading Level L · Lexile NP · ATOS 4.2

On an island of music, in a city of drumbeats, the drum dream girl dreams of pounding tall conga drums, tapping small bongó drums and booming on silvery timbales. But everyone on the island believes that only boys should play drums, so she keeps her drumbeat dreams quiet and secret, listening to the music and sounds around her at outdoor cafés, in a flower-bright park and at carnivals. Then the brave drum dream girl dares to play, and her big sisters invite her to join their new all-girl dance band. A lyrical poem, with Pura Belpré Award-winning pictures, about courage, music and following a dream.

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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music vocabulary words and comprehension questions

12 vocabulary words and 8 comprehension questions across 3 sections: Beginning · Middle · End.

Vocabulary words include timbales, secret, imaginary, comforting, towering, rhythm, dared, invited, offered, deserved, amazed, allowed.

Sample questions

Why did the drum dream girl have to keep her drumbeat dreams quiet and secret?
At the outdoor cafés, what could she hear when she closed her eyes?
At carnivals, whose rattling beat did she listen to?

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