Elementary Bell Ringers - Grammar, Brainstorming, Writing, Videos - Digital
Elementary Bell Ringers - Grammar, Brainstorming, Writing, Videos - Digital: Jumpstart your upper elementary or early middle school students' day with these digital 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 digital 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 digital student response slide and use the accompanying teacher slide, and you have bell ringers to last the entire school year.
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This is a Google resource and students complete all the work on the computer. This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, or online education.
What Teachers Are Saying About These Digital Elementary English Bell Ringers:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Absolutely amazing resource! This is one of the best things I have purchased! I love the consistent weekly format and all of the activities. Students love our bell ringer time so much. The video journals are amazing!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ama-za-zing! Exactly what I needed. My students are engaged and have a routine to follow when entering class. Students are writing, talking about their writing, and working collaboratively. Thank you for this resource!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cannot say enought about how much I LOVE this resource! Great, engaging moring work for the entire year. My students LOVED the Video Journals.
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 Digital Response and Teacher Slides: Each of the 40 bell-ringer weeks includes a Google Slides presentation with each of the weekly slides organized by day as well as an accompanying weekly digital student response slides. Share the weekly digital bell-ringer slides on Monday, and students will use it to complete the bell ringers for that week!
➡️ General Response Slides (not Mon-Fri Option): Don't follow a Monday-Friday schedule? No problem! We have included general response slides for each of the days, so you can create your own bell-ringer schedule.
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