This award wining book written by Andrew Clements and pictures by Brian Selznick, is about a fifth grader named Nick Allen who constantly gets in trouble. His language art teacher Mrs.Granger is very strict. During the story she introduces Nick and his classmates on how words are created. But because Nick has the repuatation of disrupting class and testing teachers, he decides to create his own word, and start calling his pen "fridle". Nick then gets all of his friends to start using the word too. Nick's new words makes such cause such a frenzy until everyone in town is talking about, even journalists and this instantly makes Nick famous.
The genre of this book is realistic fiction. Realistic fiction tells a story of events that could really happen in life. I think "Fridle" fits in perfectlt because children can relate so easily to Nick Allen as well as the other characters. The main theme is this book is "anything is possible" because who knew that one little word by a fifth grader would cause such chaos, and make him famous. The pictures in this book are very simple they are in a black in white, drawn by pen.
Classroom Activities:
1. Students will work in groups and create their own word and definition, and share it with the class.
2. Students will summarize the story and use a graphic organizer to place the story from beginning to end.
Reader Response Questions
1. How did Nick get his class out of having homework?
2. Why did Mrs. Granger ask Nick to sign the back of the envelope?
3. What is a fridle?
Personal Comments
I think this book would be a good to read to student during the first month of class, I think it is very enjoyable, and students will relate to the characters.
References
Clements, A. (2014). Frindle. New York: Atheneum Books.
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