Drums Save the Day / Drums Send a Signal

Fiction and nonfiction pairs provide opportunities for students to analyze and compare different perspectives. This pairing supports thinking across texts by illustrating how different authors treat a similar topic. Excitingly, this pairing contrasts craft and structure of fiction with craft and structure of informational texts. In the fictional narrative, Drums Save the Day, find out how drums in Colonial America, helped save many from harm. Readers experience this well told story through a father telling his son a bedtime story. This fiction book is paired with the nonfiction book, Drums Send a Signal, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies. This nonfiction book explains, for millennia, call and response has been used for communication. Drums, among other instruments, have been utilized to communicate through call and response since their sound can carry much farther than a voice or shout. Accompany your readers through the theme set depicting drums and the signals they are able to send.