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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Frindle

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Use Frindle by Andrew Clements to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

The story of Nicholas Allen and the invention of his Frindle is a highly entertaining choice for Book Club. The story of creativity, determination, and Nick's war of words will hold students' attention, making it easy to focus on main ideas and supporting details in the text.
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Instructional Overview

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Instructional Overview

The instructional overview includes instructional background for main idea and supporting details, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to Frindle Book Club.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.4.2W.4.8RL.4.3L.4.4aRL.4.4L.4.5cRL.4.5L.4.6RL.4.6W.4.9RL.4.7RL.4.9RL.4.10SL.4.1aSL.4.1bRL.4.1SL.4.1c
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.7E4.9D(iii)4.6D4.10G4.7F4.9E(i)4.6E4.13A4.7G4.9E(ii)4.6F4.13C4.8A4.9E(iii)4.6G4.13E4.8B4.9F4.6H4.13H4.8C4.1A4.10A4.6I4.8D4.1C4.10B4.7A4.9A4.1D4.10C4.7B4.9B4.6A4.10D4.7C4.9D(i)4.6B4.10E4.7D4.9D(ii)4.6C4.10F
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Management Resources

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Management Resources

The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.
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Meeting 1

Frindle by Andrew Clements provides an engaging text for students to practice identifying main ideas and supporting details. This Book Club meeting sets up a method of tracking these two things throughout the text.
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Meeting 2

Students will practice determining the main ideas in Frindle by focusing on using the chapter titles. Author Andrew Clements, like many authors, uses clues in the titles for what the chapter is about.
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Meeting 3

During this Frindle Book Club meeting, students will determine whether or not their main idea predictions are correct. One way to do this is to look at the supporting details in the text for evidence.
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Meeting 4

This Book Club discussion focuses on how author, Andrew Clements, uses supporting details in Frindle. Students will see how supporting details can be identified for the main idea of the book, chapter, and character actions.
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Meeting 5

Students have gained valuable experience with identifying main ideas and supporting details throughout the Frindle Book Club. During this meeting, thoughtful discussion will focus on how the author's purpose, message, and main ideas are all connected.
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Meeting 6

This final Book Club meeting for Frindle by Andrew Clements encourages students to discover that the main ideas for each chapter are actually the supporting details for the main idea of the entire text.
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Vocabulary Connections with Frindle

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Vocabulary Connections with Frindle

This set of vocabulary development resources for Frindle highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book.  Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.4.4aL.4.5cL.4.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.7E4.7F4.3A4.3B
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Focus Assessment and Rubric

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Focus Assessment and Rubric

Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with main idea and supporting details.
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Running Record with Frindle

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Running Record with Frindle

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Frindle. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Management Resources - Spanish

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Management Resources - Spanish

The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.
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About the Book

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Title: Frindle
Author: Andrew Clements
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Back to School, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9780689806698
Publisher's Summary:
Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical island, or the times he fooled his teacher by chirping like a blackbird? But now Nick's in fifth grade, and it looks like his days as a troublemaker are over. Everyone knows that Mrs. Granger, the language arts teacher, has X-ray vision, and nobody gets away with anything in her classroom. To make matters worse, she's also a fanatic about the dictionary, which is hopelessly boring to Nick. But when Nick learns an interesting tidbit about words and where they come from, it inspires his greatest plan yet: to invent a new word. From now on, a pen is no longer a pen -- it's a frindle. It doesn't take long for frindle to take root, and soon the excitement spreads well beyond his school and town. His parents and Mrs. Granger would like Nick to put an end to all this nonsense. But frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. All he can do now is sit back and watch what happens. This quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words will have readers inventing their own words. Brian Selznick's black-and-white illustrations enhance the humor in this unforgettable story.
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