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!