Snag Your Copy Frindle: Novel-Ties Study Guide Articulated By Andrew Clements Distributed As Digital Format

NovelTies study guides as your total guided reading program, Reproducible pages in chapterbychapter format provide you with the right questions to ask, the important issues to discuss, and the organizational aids that help students get the most out of each book they read.
Captivating plot for young readers, Inspiring for teachers! Good read it I was born in Camden, New Jersey inand lived in Oaklyn and Cherry Hill until the middle of

sixth grade.
Then we moved to Springfield, Illinois, My parents were avid readers and they gave that love of books and reading to me and to all my brothers and sisters.
I didnt think about being a writer at all back then, but I did love to read.
Im certain theres a link between reading good books and becoming a writer, I dont know a single writer who wasnt a reader first, Before moving to Illinois, and even afterwards, our family spent summers at a cabin on a lake in Maine.
There was no TV there, no phone, no doorbelland email wasnt even invented, All day there was time to swim and fish and mess around outside, and every night, there was t I was born in Camden, New Jersey inand lived in Oaklyn and Cherry Hill until the middle of sixth grade.
Then we moved to Springfield, Illinois, My parents were avid readers and they gave that love of books and reading to me and to all my brothers and sisters.
I didnt think about being a writer at all back then, but I did love to read.
I'm certain there's a link between reading good books and becoming a writer, I don't know a single writer who wasnt a reader first, Before moving to Illinois, and even afterwards, our family spent summers at a cabin on a lake in Maine.
There was no TV there, no phone, no doorbelland email wasnt even invented, All day there was time to swim and fish and mess around outside, and every night, there was time to read.
I know those quiet summers helped me begin to think like a writer, During my senior year at Springfield High School my English teacher handed back a poem Id written.
Two things were amazing about that paper, First, Id gotten an Aa rare event in this teachers class, And shed also written in large, scrawly red writing, “Andrewthis poem is so funny, This should be published!” That praise sent me off to Northwestern University feeling like I was a pretty good writer, and occasionally professors there also encouraged me and complimented the essays I was required to write as a literature major.
But I didnt write much on my ownjust some poetry now and then, I learned to play guitar and began writing songs, but again, only when I felt like it.
Writing felt like hard worksomething thats still true today, After the songwriting came my first job in publishing, I worked for a small publisher who specialized in how to books, the kind of books that have photos with informative captions below each one.
The book in which my name first appeared in print is called A Country Christmas Treasury, Id built a number of the projects featured in the book, and I was listed as one of the “craftspeople”on the acknowlegements page, in tiny, tiny type.
InI began trying to write a story about a boy who makes up a new word.
That book eventually became my first novel, Frindle, published in, and you can read the whole story of how it developed on another web site, frindle.
com. Frindle became popular, popular than any of my books before or sinceat least so far, And it had the eventual effect of turning me into a full time writer, Ive learned that I need time and a quiet place to think and write, These days, I spend a lot of my time sitting in a small shed about seventy feet from my back door at our home in Massachusetts.
Theres a woodstove in there for the cold winters, and an air conditioner for the hot summers.
Theres a desk and chair, and I carry a laptop computer back and forth, But theres no TV, no phone, no doorbell, no email, And the woodstove and the pine board walls make the place smell just like that cabin in Maine where I spent my earliest summers.
Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books, The answer is simple: one word at a time, Which is a good lesson, I think, You don't have to do everything at once, You don't have to know how every story is going to end, You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.
And growing up, it's the same way, We just have to go to that next class, read that next chapter, help that next person.
You simply have to do that next good thing, and before you know it, you're living a good life.
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