Sounds of a Distant Drum Author:Bill Martin Teacher's Edition of the Supplementary Reader for Grade 6... From the first page of annotations: "Hello, good teachers. In lieu of talking with you face-to-face, we are relying on man's miraculous invention, print. These annotations, like this reader, are aninvitation for all of us to rejoice in the act of language for all of us to rejoice in th... more »e act of language and how it influences man's becoming. The Sounds of Language program is designed to enhance a child's use of language as a speaker, a listener, a writer and a reader..."« less