ELA Bell Ringers for the ENTIRE School Year | Bell Ringer Journal Prompts

This resource includes an entire school year of ELA-focused bell ringer journal prompts. Each day includes a highly engaging prompt for students to respond to. All bell ringers are skill-based and designed to encourage creative and critical thinking!

These bell ringers are designed for middle and high school English Language Arts.

What's included in this resource?

• Entire year of ELA bell ringers designed to be displayed each day to create a seamless routine (230+ prompts)
• Printable student response sheet
• Digital student response sheet
• Vibrant imagery for student engagement

Daily skills covered:

• MONDAY VOCABULARY: Students respond to a new vocabulary term each week
• TUESDAY STORY STARTERS: Students use critical and creative thinking to imagine and predict events in the story
• WEDNESDAY PHOTO RESPONSE: Students respond to unique images the evoke a variety of emotions
• THURSDAY FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Students respond to various examples of themed figurative language
• FRIDAY FIX IT: Students rewrite and fix sentences with errors

Benefits of using daily bell ringers:

1. Create routine with your students. Each day, your students will know to respond to the bell ringer prompt on the board.
2. Forget having to come up with creative bell ringer prompts on the spot each morning because that’s all taken care of for you! You now have time to focus on your other planning.
3. The prompts get students in the “English Zone” and ready to focus on the day’s work!
4. No mess, easy to grade, and simple to keep organized. A digital response sheet is included.

Check out the preview to see examples of the daily bell ringer prompts!

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