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Frindle by Andrew Clements Book Club Packet: Teacher/Parent Guide + Student Pages with Plans, Discussion Questions, Answer Keys & Reader's Theatre
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Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Nick Allen doesn't, and he is about to prove it.
BONUS INCLUDED: two ready-to-play Blooket review games! An 18-question game for Chapters 1-8 and a 35-question cumulative game for the whole book, with an answer key. In Blooket, choose Create, then Import from Spreadsheet, and you have a game night in minutes.
Sit back and enjoy this funny, hopeful school story with your students as you use my No Prep Frindle Book Club Packet. It is ONE download with everything the teacher or parent needs and every page the students print.
Nick is a fifth grader who loves ideas and pranks. His language arts teacher, Mrs. Granger, loves dictionaries and answers every "why" with "look it up." So Nick looks it up, then invents a brand-new word for pen: frindle. What starts as a joke between friends spreads through the whole school, the town and the news, and it turns into a big question about who gets to decide what words mean. Andrew Clements' gentle, clever story is about language, creativity, respect and what happens when a kid and a teacher both refuse to back down.
This is my Frindle BOOK CLUB edition, and it is built for a classroom group, a homeschool co-op, or a club at your kitchen table. It comes in TWO parts inside one file: PART 1 is the Teacher/Parent Guide with the plans, discussion questions and every answer key, and PART 2 is the Student Pages you print for your readers.
Plan it your way. The guide has a 4-week plan, a 3-session plan and a 2-session plan for 55-minute meetings, so it fits the schedule you actually have. Start each meeting with the discussion questions, play Name That Character, and finish with a printable Book Club certificate.
Leave the hard work to me! Print, read, talk, laugh, and watch your kiddos fall in love with this book.
Covers the following Reading skills:
- Recalling key details and facts from the story
- Finding text evidence to support an answer
- Character traits, character sketch and a character analysis essay outline
- Putting story events in order
- Identifying literary devices (simile, metaphor, idiom, irony, onomatopoeia) and explaining what they mean
- Making a prediction
- Vocabulary in context
- Speaking and listening through discussion and Reader's Theatre
Content note: Frindle is a gentle school story with no scary content and no language. Nick's clever battles with his teacher can seem disrespectful to some families, and the story ends with both of them showing respect for each other. Common Sense Media rates the book 8 and up. Please preview.
Created by Kim Baust, "The Literature Lady," founder of YSA Homeroom by The Young Scholar Academy (online).
Format
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✓ novel study
✓ no prep
✓ reader's theatre
✓ book club
✓ discussion questions
✓ readers theater
Frindle comes with 6 question sets and discussion questions for every chapter group, so there is always a next thing to talk about. A story kids cannot put down is half the job. The other half is getting them to think about it. Chapter by chapter questions send students back into the text, and the talking that follows is where understanding grows. The What Works Clearinghouse practice guide for upper elementary and up recommends exactly that mix: extended discussion of what a text means, plus direct teaching of comprehension strategies. You bring the book and the conversation. Leave the planning to me.
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Hi, I’m Kim! I’m an educator with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Elementary Education and more than 30 years of classroom experience.
I started The Literature Lady because I wanted to make reading come alive for students—and make lesson planning a lot easier for teachers. I create resources that were way too time-consuming to create while teaching full-time, so that now you don’t have to! My passion is creating engaging, low-prep resources, such as novel studies, Word Noodle vocabulary games, and reader’s theatre scripts, that help kids fall in love with books while building real skills.
When I’m not writing or designing new lessons, you’ll find me teaching right here on the TeacherStore.io community platform! The Young Scholar Academy is an online small group learning community that teaches homeschool students in grades 1-8. We teach core classes, electives, one-on-one tutoring, and so much more! As Tiffany would say, "Come for the classes, stay for the community!"
I am also a fun of reading, baking, traveling, or hanging out with my husband, our two college-aged sons, and our dogs, Maisie and Sophie.
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