Characters
Plot Events
Vocabulary
Setting
Big Ideas
100

The main character of the story

Who is Nick Allen?

100

The reason why Nick invented the word frindle

What is to be challenged or show how words are made?

100

a book of word meanings

What is a dictionary?

100

The place where the story takes place

Where is school?

100

The truth about words

What is words can change?

200

The friend who helps Nick spread the word frindle

Who is Janet Fisk?

200

This happens when students and Nick uses the word frindle in class.

What is getting a detention?

200

The beginning of something, where it all began

What is the origin?

200

The class that is the most important in the whole school

What is Language Arts?

200

This is what Nick shows often in the novel

What is creativity?

300

The person who writes about Nick in the news.

Who is Judy Morgan?

300

This happens at the end of the story with the word frindle.

What is frindle being added to the dictionary>

300

a person who is a news writer

What is a reporter?

I will accept

What is a journalist?

300

The place the where the word frindle was first used

Where is school (Mrs. Granger's class)?

300

Mrs. Granger admires Nick for this

What is Nick's thinking?

400

Nick is known for this but it is not the word frindle

What is asking questions or being creative?

400

Nick sells these items

What are frindle pens?

400

To have power/control over someone or others

What is authority?

400

The grade Nick is in

What is grade 5?

400

The main theme of the novel

What is language is powerful?

500

The principal

Who is Mrs. Chatam?

500

This is the way the word frindle was spread outside of school.

What is the news/media?

500

Something is popular and everyone is doing it right now

What is a trend?

500

The place impacted about the news about frindle

Where is the school/community?

500

The lesson Nick learns

What is actions have consequences?

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