This book is about a young, 5th grade boy who is very creative. He begins to question where words come from. Later, he struggles with a new, demanding English teacher that battles him over an invented word. Nick ends up creating the word "frindle" for "pen." The story ends up being a power struggle with the teacher and largely society for this young boy. The new word gains national attention even causing more problems with Mrs. Granger. In the end, the grown Nick has become rich from the national new use of his creation, "frindle," and he makes amends with Mrs. Granger.
This novel would be great to do for a literature focus unit because I remember doing that in 5th grade. I enjoyed the unit so much that I needed up reading all of Andrew Clements's other books as well on my own. I would love to influence students in that way, and have his other books as reading suggestions.
I thought this could also be used for an author study on Andrew Clements since his books are so engaging for all students.
I thought students could do an activity or writing prompt in which they had to create their own new word for something and describe the process of inventing the word.
In addition, the class could explore where words come from and the meaning behind certain words.
The following is the link to a Pinterest page for this book: https://www.pinterest.com/explore/frindle/
The following is a link for help with guided reading for this novel: http://laurendesautels.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/5/3/19533695/frindle_guided_reading_unit.pdf
This video is a book trailer:
The following is link to a few project ideas for this novel: http://frindle.wikispaces.com/Project+Ideas |
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