50 Common Core Reading Response Activities

Powerful activities that help students meet rigorous standards!

Help students meet the Common Core with these common-sense lessons and activities from master teacher Marilyn Pryle. She shares simple practices-such as the Quote Wall, Genre Index, and Allusion Wall of Fame-that can be woven seamlessly into your weekly routine to develop deep reading habits. She also presents engaging reading response activities that prompt students to interact with text in meaningful ways, close reading to trace character development, explore relationships between events and ideas, discern point of view, discover themes, and so much more! For use with Grades 5 & Up.

Marilyn Pryle has taught writing, English literature and ESL for over sixteen years. She has lived and taught in Philadelphia, Scranton, and Boston, and began her career in Kathmandu, Nepal, as a Jesuit International Volunteer. In Boston, Marilyn created and taught a full-time eighth-grade writing workshop; this experience served as the springboard for bothTeaching Students to Write Effective EssaysandPurposeful Conferences, Powerful Writing. Marilyn has also published poems and essays. She currently lives in Clarks Green, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Tim, and sons, Gavin and Tiernan.