Marilyn Pryle

Marilyn Pryle is a National Board Certified teacher with over 25 years of experience teaching middle school, high school, college, and English language learners, and she currently teaches 10th grade English in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. She holds an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on global education, an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education and reading education from the University of Scranton. In 2020 she was named Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year, and she has been recognized as a Top 50 finalist for the 2025 Global Teacher Prize.

Pryle is the author of numerous professional books for educators focused on teaching reading and writing, including 5 Questions for Any Text: Critical Reading in the Age of Disinformation, Reading with Presence, 50 Writing Activities for Meeting Higher Standards, 50 Common Core Reading Response Activities, and Writing Workshop for Middle School. Her work centers on developing students’ critical reading skills and original responses to texts, offering practical frameworks—such as the five-question method in 5 Questions for Any Text—to help teachers address disinformation and media literacy in contemporary classrooms.