Ways to Use Bell Ringers for Review

Each day, your learners are exploring new ideas to improve their reading and writing skills. Bell ringers are the perfect way to engage your students from the moment they get out their materials to start class. They set the tone for your class and give you a chance to check-in with students who were absent the day before or need additional help. The most important thing to remember is that bell ringers reinforce skills rather than teach brand new concepts.

In addition, students need multiple and varied interactions with a skill or concept to be able to master it. Of course, it can be hard to design and plan scaffolded lessons that  build upon previously mastered skills.  Using the ELA Bell Ringers for Upper Elementary & Middle School Bundle, you will have daily activities planned and ready to roll out for the entire year! Plus they are now all digital!

Daily ELA Bell Ringers

Each day students complete a task focused on a reading or writing skill. Your students will enjoy these engaging bell ringers to take them through the whole school year. The ELA Bell Ringers for Upper Elementary & Middle School Bundle comes with 36 weeks of M-F bell ringers!

Monday: Root/Affix of the Week

First, the focus on Monday is the root or affix of the week. On this day, students write the root or affix, the meaning, identify three examples, and draw a picture for each example. Roots and affixes are selected from the most frequently used for grades 4-7.

Tuesday: Picture of the Week

Next, Tuesday’s focus is on inferences. Students first make as many inferences as possible about the picture in the presentation. Then, students write at least 2-3 complete sentences focusing on the picture and inferences drawn.

Wednesday: Sentence of the Week

On Wednesday, students revise a grammatically incorrect sentence based on Common Core State Standards for Language 4-7. Identifying how grammar is used incorrectly is just as important as to be able to use skills correctly. Students also love correcting mistakes to show what they know!

Thursday: Writing of the Week

Next, students write, define, break up, use the word in a sentence, and illustrate a CCSS literacy device vocabulary word, or CCSS vocabulary word on Thursday. These words are also based on the CCSS 4-7 standards.

Friday: Response Writing

It’s finally Friday! Your learners end the week strong by reading a quote and responding to it with what they think it means or what it makes them think of. Many quotes are chosen from 4th-7th grade popular and award-winning novels or even inspirational role models. This is a fun and engaging way to keep students thinking and engaged with root words and affixes at the end of the week.

Creating engaging lessons for students to master any skill can be time-consuming and challenging. This is on top of the grading, emails, phone calls home to parents, and meetings, of course. The work and planning in this bundle is already done and waiting for you to bring it to life in your classroom! Use ELA bell ringers to help review reading and writing skills in your classroom.

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