English Bell Ringers - Grammar, Vocabulary, Figurative Language, Videos - Vol 3
English Bell Ringers - Grammar, Vocabulary, Figurative Language, Videos - Vol 3: Have your students in their seats as soon as the bell rings by beginning each of your middle or high school English classes with these engaging daily bell ringer routines! This comprehensive full-year resource includes everything you need to start each class with an engaging bell ringer activity. With tasks related to figurative language, word choice, vocabulary, grammar and video journals, you'll have what you need to engage your students and improve their ELA skills. All you have to do is print the weekly student handout or use the general response sheets to choose the day of the week for each bell ringer, and your planning is complete.
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What Teachers Are Saying About These English Bell-Ringers:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is one of the best products I've ever bought on TPT, and I've bought a lot! My students love the variety in the activities, I love the ease of use, and that everything is done for you! My administrators love how creative the prompts are and have commented on them in several observations. If you are going to buy any bell-ringer activity, this is the product for you!
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I am in my 4th week of using the Bellringers, and it has transformed the beginning of my classes! Students come in, pull out the Bellringer sheet and their homework and get working while I check the homework. One student told her grandma how much she loved English because Mrs. Phillips has something different every day. She was talking about the bellringers. I am so delighted with this purchase!
Included in These English Bell-Ringers (Vol 3):
➡️ Monday Mistakes (Grammar Correction): These engaging tasks prompt students to correct grammar errors, spelling mistakes, and punctuation errors while exploring interesting modern topics. Included are 40 slides of high-interest paragraphs that contain errors. The animated slides allow each error to be revealed at a time, making for easy class review. Also included is a task card format, a teacher reference sheet with basic grammar rules (commas, homophones, numbers, subject-verb agreement, and capitalization), and a separate booklet with all the grammar paragraphs in case you do not want to use the weekly response pages.
➡️ Tuesday Terms (Vocabulary): These bell-ringers allow students to infer the meaning of two new vocabulary words in a sentence using context, and then compare their inferences to the correct definitions. Included are 40 bell-ringer slides, a task card format, and a booklet with all the vocabulary tasks in case you do not want to use the weekly response pages.
➡️ Wednesday Wise Words (Quote Response): These wise words bell-ringers will engage your students in reflection and writing! Each slide includes an inspirational quote from a famous person in history. Also is a 40-slide presentation, a general individual quote response assignment, and twenty pages of bell-ringer student response sheets in case you do not want to use the weekly response pages. Students will also learn about people in history as information is provided about the figure who said the quote!
➡️ Thursday Thoughts (Video Clip Journal Writing): 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 Figurative Language (Literary Devices): These slides allow students to locate and label figurative language in examples (2 per week). Each of the bell-ringers is also available in task card format, and a bell-ringer booklet with all the figurative language tasks in case you do not want to use the weekly response pages. The types of figurative language included in this resource are simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, idiom, hyperbole, allusion, alliteration, pun, assonance, synecdoche, and irony.
➡️ 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!
More Incredible Teacher Feedback On These English Bell-Ringers:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I LOVE this resource! I have used all the volumes. I have continually received good reviews for classroom management because my students come in and know what to do! So often I am able to make connections to the lessons I'm teaching. The resource allows you to pick and choose and reorder the sections as you see fit.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students absolutely love these! I've purchased all three volumes of the bell ringers, and my students can't get enough of these. Students feel very comfortable commenting on what they like and do not like. I stopped using the bell ringers for about a week, as I thought they needed a little change. I received numerous requests to bring "the real bell ringers" back. The students have said that they enjoy the stories/information but do find them challenging. Also, they love watching and responding to the videos. The topics often spark great discussions. I've even had parents say that their children really enjoy what we're doing in class and our bell ringers! Fantastic!! These are worth more than the asking price! Thank you! Keep up the fabulous work!
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