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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A "Brief, Urgent Message": Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
   As a culminating activity for Slaughterhouse-Five, students make a compilation album (a CD with 6-8 tracks) that reflects their analysis, understanding, and reaction to the ideas in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the Miser
   Students apply the analytical skills that they use when reading literature to an exploration of the underlying meaning and symbolism in Hieronymous Bosch's early Renaissance painting Death and the Miser.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 1
   April is National Poetry Month!
   Students are assigned to be "poets of the day" and are provided several models to create, illustrate, and present their different poems to the class.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in an Integrated Classroom
   Make the most of your students' diverse ability levels and experience with a prewriting activity in which they describe an abstract idea using blogging and photographs that they have taken.
5. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
   This collection of essays by classroom teachers demonstrates how to pair graphic novels with classic literature (including both canonical and YA lit).
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis: A WebQuest on Iran
   To prepare students for reading the graphic novel Persepolis, this lesson uses a WebQuest to focus students' research on finding reliable information about Iran before and during the Islamic Revolution.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 7
   Jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915.
   Students listen to Holiday's song "Strange Fruit" and identify powerful and descriptive images for a mini-lesson on tone and about the lynchings in the South during this time.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
   This landmark reference offers in-depth exploration of contemporary reading and literacy research.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 26
   The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937.
   After showing students Picasso's Guernica, they are provided with background information, share their impressions, and write about Picasso's purpose in creating the painting.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 12
    Today is D.E.A.R. Day!
    April 12 is known as D.E.A.R Day! D.E.A.R. stands for "Drop Everything and Read," a national month-long celebration of reading designed to remind folks of all ages to make reading a priority activity in their lives.