It was the winner of the 2016 Phoenix Award, which is granted by the Children's Literature Association to the best English-language children's book that did not win a major award when it was published twenty years earlier. This was until, he was challenged by his language arts teacher, Miss … Frindle. Frindle by Andrew Clements Teacher’s Introduction Frindle is a book in the realistic fiction genre. She holds the dictionary sacred and believes it is the most important book in the world that everyone should own. Frindle is an ideal book to practice summarization, as it is short, but also contains many important plot elements. Andrew Clements often writes books about the lives of ordinary kids. Frindle Frindle Frindle Frindle Frindle Frindle Frindle. Mrs. Granger is a serious fifth-grade teacher who loves the dictionary and insists that her students use words correctly. 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? Book Summary. Title of Book: Frindle Author: Andrew Clements ISBN: 978-0-689-81876-9 Summary ‘Frindle’ is a captivating story about a fifth grade boy, Nick Allen, who loves to outsmart his teachers at school. Realistic (fiction), Trade Book, Lexile 830 . It is a book about kids just like you, and has familiar settings like home and school. Book Summary In the book Frindle by Andrew Clements, Nick Allen enters into his fifth grade classroom knowing he's about to face the toughest teacher at Lincoln Elementary School. Students transitioning from summarizing short stories to summarizing lengthier chapter-books will benefit from having to synthesize the chapters of the book into a full summary. Fifth grader Nick Allen knows just how to make school more cool. On the surface, Frindle is a cute children's book about a creative kid who makes up a new word right out of the blue, and causes quite a stir in school and in his community by getting a lot of other kids to use it--and provoking opposition from his teacher Mrs. Granger, who stands by the letter of the law of the dictionary. In third grade, he transformed Miss Deaver's room into a tropical paradise with some paper palm trees and a sandy beach. Nick Allen is a confident and clever fifth-grade student. Short Summary Filled with rousing action and unpredictable outcomes, this wise and funny novel about the perils and privileges of free speech features a hero with a … Frindle is an American children's novel written by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by Aladdin in 1996. Her mission is to extend the vocabulary of every fifth … Even though the events in this books … In fourth grade, he taught his classmates to mimic the high-pitched calls of blackbirds. 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