Bible Verse ELA Bellringers - Full Year - Print & Digital
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Teach reading comprehension using Bible verses! This Bible Verse of the Day middle school ELA bellringers resource is a FULL YEAR of scripture reading warm-ups - perfect for your Christian school classroom or homeschool!
Motivate your student(s) to live for Jesus all year long with an inspirational Bible verse each day, plus a total of 540 skill-based questions covering the following reading skills and strategies:
- Reading comprehension
- Words in context
- Figurative language
- Inference
- Cause and effect
- Paraphrasing
- Author's purpose
- Word choice
- Attitude
- Connotation
- Irony
- Character traits
- ...and more!
This resource includes everything you need for a full year of learning and inspiration:
- 180 PowerPoint slides - each with one Bible verse and three skill-based questions
- 36 PDF worksheets - one for each week, with five verses each and the same questions for students to answer individually
- Table of contents at the beginning of each month (20 verse slides each) listing each verse's topic and skills covered
- Checklist of Bible verses (PDF), organized by month, also including topics and skills - super helpful if you decide to jump around!
- Google Slides versions of all Bible verse slides and weekly worksheets
- Answer key (PDF)
*Month 3 contains verses at the end specific to Thanksgiving.
*Month 4 contains verses specific to Christmas.
*Month 7 contains verses specific to the Easter season.
This resource includes a digital version for use in Google Classroom! The zip file includes a page of links for accessing all slides and worksheets in Google Slides.
You can use this versatile resource in a variety of ways!
- Post a verse a day and discuss the questions as a class
- Post the daily scripture on an interactive whiteboard and let students write answers and receive feedback
- Have students complete the daily verse on that week's worksheet and discuss answers on the PowerPoint slide
- Collect the worksheet for a classwork grade at the end of the week
- Do several verses at a time to practice a specific skill
Multiple formats make it easy to adapt the activities to be reading warm-ups, lessons, or even assessments based on your individual class or student's needs. These bellringers also work great as tools for digital learning!
With the convenient verse checklist and table of contents for each month, this resource allows you to choose verses based on the book of the Bible, topic you want to discuss, or skill you need to teach. For example, choose Bible verses relevant to events going in your school or home, or when you cover a topic like figurative language, use verses that reinforce those skills.
Much prayer went into the choosing of verses and writing of questions. I hope you and your students are as inspired by these Bible verse bellringers as I have been in creating them!
All Bible passages are taken from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.
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