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Frindle By Andrew Clements
Lesson Plans by Heidi Deck
After an attempt to waste time and provoke his new language arts teacher, Nick Allen gets assigned a report on the history of the dictionary. This research sparks an idea to invent a new word: “frindle”. What was once an innocent idea spreads like wildfire until the word no longer belongs to Nick, and there’s no way for him to stop it.
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Storyboard Description
This Frindle Vocabulary activity will help students identify and illustrate unfamiliar vocabulary and get them thinking about how to create their own word!
Storyboard Text
- JOLT
- REPUTATION
- ABRUPTLY
- (V.) A sudden, jarring push or shake "Lincoln Elementary needed a good jolt once in a while, and Nick was just the guy to deliver it." (Page 3)
- (N.) The opinion that people have about someone or something because of what has happened in the past "His reputation was in great danger. So he launched another question." (Page 29)
- (Adv.) suddenly and unexpectedly "Then Mrs. Granger stood up abruptly and said, 'That is all for today Nicholas, and may the best word win.'" (Page 47)
- "FRINDLE" VOCABULARY
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