Frindle in 4th Grade

Ms. Braszo's 4th grade English Language Arts class started reading the novel Frindle by Andrew Clements. The novel is about a 5th-grader named Nick Allen who is determined to prove to his teacher and classmates that words can come from anywhere.

In class, the students participated in a guided novel read for chapters 1-3. They discussed the character traits and made predictions about what might happen in the upcoming chapters. Then, students used the Pages application on their iPad to create a Venn Diagram. They used the diagram to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between Nick and themselves (even Ms. Braszo completed her diagram in order to compare Ms. Granger, Nick's teacher, to herself!). In Pages, the students learned how to insert images, insert shapes, add text boxes, amongst other skills. The students were very creative with this project and loved seeing a real Dictionary like the one described in Frindle!