Grammar Bell-Ringers & Task Cards Activities - Editing Grammar in Text Messages

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Grammar Bell-Ringers & Task Cards Activities - Editing Grammar in Text Messages: Engage your students with high-interest, weekly grammar bell ringers designed to last the entire school year! The engaging activities prompt students to correct grammar errors, spelling mistakes, and punctuation errors in text message conversations. Elevate your grammar instruction with these dynamic and modern bell ringers and task cards that your students will absolutely love!

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Included in This Grammar Bell-Ringers and Task Cards Resource:

➡️ 80 Grammar Bell-Ringer Presentation Slides: Use this 80-slide PowerPoint presentation to introduce and review the 40 text messages containing spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors. Each text has an introductory slide that shares the conversation and an answer key slide to review with students. The slideshow is animated, so as you click each error is revealed and edited one at a time with a brief explanation of the error!

➡️ 40 Grammar Task Cards: Each of the 40 text message conversations also comes in a task card format within the design of a cellphone. This works great at a grammar center in your classroom!

➡️ Grammar Bell-Ringer Booklet: Have students complete their work in this ready-to-print booklet with all text message conversations. Share the slideshow with the class, and students can complete the work in this booklet. Keep this booklet in a binder for students' daily bell-ringers.

Skills Covered in This Grammar Bell-Ringers and Task Cards Resource:

End punctuation
Comma usage
Homophones
Number rules
Subject/verb agreement
Capitalization
Articles
Proper spelling
Apostrophes
Fragments
Comma splice

How To Use This Grammar Bell-Ringers and Task Cards Assignment:

Text Fail Tuesday: Pass out the bell-ringer booklet version to your students at the start of the year. Introduce one of the text message conversations to your class per week for 40 weeks as bell-ringers. Everyone finds the errors on their own (or you can do it in groups or pairs). Then, you can use the PowerPoint to go over it together as a class.
Writing Centers: Include a packet of the task cards at a center where students can choose which ones to work on. Print out 4 slides per page on PowerPoint (option provided when you print) and keep an answer key booklet for students to check their work when they are done.
Pair or Group Work: Give each pair or small group of students a task card and have them complete it together. Then, each pair or group can present the text message conversation to the class and share what errors they found.

What Teachers Are Saying About This Bell-Ringers & Task Cards Assignment:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In the past my bell ringer has been reading time, but this year the kids were refusing to engage with it, so I needed to find something new and this is fantastic! We spend some time with them working on it, and then we go over it together as a class, and they are engaged the whole time.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I can always count on Presto Plans whenever I need a refresh of my bellringers. Her slides look great and she includes student handouts, just in case. These slides with text message "fails" are a fun way to provide proofreading practice for my students. I've used Presto Plan's other grammar bellringers, and this one is a nice change-up.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love how many options and varieties there are to the texts. The students love the text model. We have used these as races on the wall projector side by side in teams, the students get so competitive. This is also really great as a substitute emergency plan.

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