Free Grammar Bell-Ringers - Weekly Grammar Skills Program Middle High ELA

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Free Grammar Bell-Ringers - Weekly Grammar Skills Program Middle High ELA: Try a free sample of our full-year Grammar Bell-Ringer Program. This is a sample of our 40-week program helps students strengthen their understanding of grammar, mechanics, and usage through a consistent and creative weekly structure that builds mastery one day at a time.

In the full-year program. each Monday, students are introduced to a new grammar concept—ranging from capitalization and commas to homophones, sentence fragments, and more. Throughout the week, they apply the skill in increasingly challenging and creative ways through short tasks, sentence corrections, and writing prompts. By Friday, students are synthesizing their learning in fun, real-world ways that reinforce retention and deepen comprehension.

Find the full-year program here: Grammar Bell-Ringer Program

Included in this Grammar Bell-Ringer:

➡️ Grammar Bell-Ringer Presentation: Use the included PowerPoint presentation slides to teach capitalization rules. Each of the daily tasks build progressively throughout the week to have students practice what they learned. The slides also include answer keys, so you can easily review with students.

➡️ Student Bell-Ringer Response Sheets: Use the included weekly bell-ringer response sheet to guide students through the bell-ringer task. The pages include space for short responses, sentence corrections, and creative writing.

What do students do each of the days?

Monday Mastery: Students are introduced to the week’s grammar concept through a clear explanation and example-driven slide. They begin by identifying the rule/concept and demonstrating a basic understanding with a quick-response activity.
Tuesday Task: Students apply the grammar concept in context by completing short, skill-based tasks, such as identifying errors, choosing the correct form, or rewriting sentences.
Wednesday Writing: Students take their understanding a step further by writing an original paragraph or short response that applies the grammar rule correctly and creatively.
Thursday Team Up: On Thursdays, students work together in pairs (or individually if preferred) to complete an engaging, escape-room–style activity centered on the week’s grammar topic. Through collaboration, they identify grammar errors hidden within the challenges to uncover a mystery code and “escape.”
Friday Fix-Up: To wrap up the week, students read an engaging nonfiction paragraph and apply their learning by correcting errors related to that week’s grammar topic.

Skills addressed in the full-year Grammar Bell-Ringers resource:

This full-year Grammar Bell-Ringer Program covers English grammar, usage, and mechanics, while also teaching different ways to use language effectively to convey meaning. Below is an overview of the weekly skills and topics addressed:

Capitalization
Homophones
You’re vs. Your
There, Their, and They’re
Its vs. It’s
To, Too, Two
Commas in a Series
Commas with Conjunctions
Commas with Direct Address
Appositives
Coordinating Conjunctions
Coordinate Adjectives
Comma Splices
Run-On Sentences
Fragments
Misplaced Modifiers
Dangling Modifiers
Double Negatives
Me vs. I
Pronoun Case (Who vs. Whom)
Misused Words (e.g. Lie/Lay, Good/Well, Affect/Effect)
Parallel Structure
Subject-Verb Agreement
Semicolons
Colons
Apostrophes
Punctuating Dialogue
Verb Moods
Active vs. Passive Voice
Parts of Speech
Adjectives
Adjectives vs. Adverbs
Using Numbers
Hyphen and Dash
Clauses
Subordinating Conjunctions
Simple Sentences
Compound Sentences
Complex Sentences
Compound-Complex Sentences

Find the full-year program here: Grammar Bell-Ringer Program