English Bell Ringers - ELA Figurative Language, Grammar, Vocabulary, Videos - Vol 2

Have your students in their seats and ready to learn as soon as the bell rings by beginning each of your middle or high school English classes with these engaging daily ELA bell ringers! This comprehensive, full-year resource includes everything you need to start each class with meaningful interactive English bell-ringers activities. With tasks focused on figurative language, high-interest discussion prompts, vocabulary, grammar, and video journals, you’ll have everything you need to engage students and strengthen key ELA skills. Simply print the weekly student handout or use the general response sheets to choose the day of the week for the English bell ringers, and your planning is done.

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Included in These English Bell-Ringers (Vol 2):

➡️ Monday - Video Journal of the Week: Start your week off with dynamic slides that feature 45 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 and will last you the entire school year!

➡️ Tuesday - Vocabulary of the Week: Introduce new vocabulary words to your middle and high school students by having them infer meanings from context. Each of the 45 bell-ringer slides provides a vocabulary word in a sentence and asks students to determine the meaning using context clues. Also included are extra resources to take vocabulary study to the next level: a poster and slideshow option with each term’s part of speech, pronunciation, definition, and example; vocabulary quick-reference lists; quizzes; and word cards.

➡️ Wednesday - What If? Discussion Prompt of the Week: Use the next day to engage your students in meaningful discussion! This resource includes 45 discussion prompts featuring “what if” scenarios where students must consider how life would be different. You can discuss the prompt as a whole class or break students into small groups to explore ideas and share back. This is an excellent tool for encouraging friendly debate. Additional assignments are also included to extend these prompts even further.

➡️ Thursday - Social Media Grammar of the Week: This daily task allows students to edit grammar, spelling, and punctuation in a fun and modern way! Students will read social media–style posts to find and correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. Detailed answer keys are provided for easy classroom review. Additional resources such as printable cards and a worksheet option are also included.

➡️ Friday - Figurative Language of the Week: End the week by having your students read a paragraph containing figurative language and locate examples of metaphor, simile, oxymoron, personification, alliteration, or onomatopoeia. Each of the slides is also available in task-card and booklet format, giving you flexibility in how you use the resource.

➡️ Organized Weekly Student Handouts and Slides: Each set of 45 ELA bell ringers is organized into week-by-week folders, with a PowerPoint presentation that contains each day’s slide and an accompanying weekly student handout. Distribute the handout on Monday, and students will use it all week long to complete their bell-ringer tasks.

➡️ General Response Pages (not Mon-Fri Option): Don’t follow a Monday–Friday schedule? No problem! General response pages for each day are included so you can create your own ELA bell-ringers binder and pair them with the general slides that do not include weekday headers.

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Want even more ELA bell-ringers? Check out our other volumes:

>>> English Bell-Ringers - Volume 1

>>> English Bell-Ringers - Volume 3

>>> English Bell-Ringers - Volume 4

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