Andrew Clements

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FRINDLE

• By
• Andrew Clements

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Questions to Consider

• How does a persons behavior affect his or her
  reputation at school?
• What qualities should a group leader have?
• Why would it be difficult to complete a project
  if everyone in a group tried to be the leader?
• What do you say to your friends when you want to
  persuade them to help you with something?
• Why does the author write about making up a word?

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absorbed

• Fully engaged

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aisle

• A hallway or passage a passageway that separates
  one section from another

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sidetrack

• To distract to take attention away from to turn
  away or distract someone from the main subject

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beaming

• Smiling very warmly

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oath

• Formal statement promising something a formal
  appeal to God or another authority to witness to
  truth of a promise or statement

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reputation

• Overall character as judged by people in general
  the general estimation in which a person or thing
  is held by others

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Vocabulary PracticeNumber your paper 1-6. Read
the sentence and write the correct vocabulary
word by the number

• Club members had to swear an ___ of secrecy.
• She was ___ at me after I gave her the gift.
• I asked the man at the market which ___ the bread
  was on.
• His ___ as a good teacher was well deserved.
• He was so ___ in his book that he forgot to eat
  lunch.
• They tried to ___ their mother so she would
  forget about their report cards.