Elementary Bell Ringers - Grammar, Brainstorming, and Writing Bell Work Warm Ups
Elementary Bell Ringers - Grammar, Brainstorming, and Writing Bell Work Warm Ups: Jumpstart your upper elementary or early middle school students' day with these lively daily morning work and bell ringer routines! With this comprehensive full-year resource, you'll have everything you need to kick off each morning with an engaging activity that primes your students' brains for the day ahead. The tasks, covering grammar, brainstorming, quote reflection, and video journal writing, are designed to get students in their seats and working from the moment the school day begins. Simply share the weekly student handout and use the accompanying slides, and you have bell ringers to last the entire school year.
What Teachers Are Saying About These Upper Elementary English Bell Ringers:
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Included in These Upper Elementary English Bell Ringers:
➡️ Monday Grammar of the Week: Start the week off by introducing a paragraph on a high-interest topic and having students edit grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors! The paragraphs are a mix of fiction and nonfiction. Students will not only improve their writing skills, but they will also learn a great deal from the information in the paragraphs!
➡️ Tuesday Brainstorm of the Week: Use the next day to improve your students' idea development, creative thinking, and problem-solving skills with some friendly competition! Have them complete the brainstorm of the week by coming up with words that relate to an interesting topic for 3 minutes. You can also make this a friendly competition between groups where students volunteer to share their answers. If another group has the same answer, all the groups have to cross it out. Give one point for answers that no other team has!
➡️ Wednesday Quote of the Week: On the next day you can introduce one of the 40 inspirational quotes to your students and add one of the beautiful ready-made posters to your classroom wall! You can discuss the quote as a class and your students can respond to the quote with the included response prompts.
➡️ Thursday Video Journal of the Week: Engage your students with these dynamic slides that feature 40 video clips accompanied by related writing prompts. The videos are inspirational, thought-provoking, and creative. This resource provides a structured approach to incorporating video journaling once a week to last you the entire school year.
➡️ Friday - Silent Reading (SSR): Students will end the week with sustained silent reading. Each of the weekly slideshows provides a prompt for students to take out their books and begin reading and a unique weekly connections question for students to consider as they are reading.
➡️ Organized Weekly Student Handouts and Slides: Each of the 40 bell-ringer weeks includes a folder that contains a PowerPoint presentation with each of the weekly slides organized by day as well as an accompanying weekly student handout. Distribute the weekly bell-ringer handout on Monday, and students will use it to complete the bell ringers for that week!
➡️ General Response Pages (not Mon-Fri Option): Don't follow a Monday-Friday schedule? No problem! We have included general response pages for each of the days, so you can create your own bell-ringer binder and use the general slides that do not include a Monday-Friday header!
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