FREE Bell Ringers and Writing Prompts for Middle and High School Students
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This Bellringers Writing Prompts Journal includes high-interest, relevant topics that appeal to modern teens! The weekly bell ringer journal's modern design and student-centered focus will inspire your high school to write throughout the year! This multipurpose resource will also provide you with esPrice $14.00Original Price $15.99Save $1.99
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Forget to take attendance again...? These FREE bell ringers and writing prompts are your solution by providing structure and routine to your classroom - while giving you time for administrative tasks!
This high school and middle school resource contains 20 FREE topics - including engaging writing prompts, a view and respond video clip, and reader response prompts analyzing nonfiction articles.
Use the bellringers as class starters to help facilitate your students thinking creatively and critically!
Interested in building a sense of classroom community? The prompts make all students feel valued by providing them with opportunity to let their voices and opinions be heard!
This resource will provide you with much needed time for administrative tasks and ensures your students meet the academic standard for integrating and evaluating content in diverse formats!
✏️ What are the benefits for your students?
✅Improves Mental Health
✅Boosts Social Emotional Intelligence
✅Inspires Creativity
✅Enhances Critical Thinking
✅Provides Structure and Reduces Anxiety
✅Increases Writing Capabilities
✅Improves the Ability to Analyze and Respond to Topics
The modern prompts and vibrant images are designed to appeal to today’s teenagers! Best of all, the bell ringer materials are editable to meet your needs!
The digital bellringer journal is formatted using Google Slides with editable directions for your students. You can opt to have them respond to each writing prompt by inserting a blank slide underneath each topic, or they can use the included bell ringer response sheet with labeled topics instead.
This multifunctional resource can also be used for essay starters – including writing prompt topics for descriptive essays, expository writing, and prompts for building an argument!
Sample topics include the following:
- My Dream Home
- New Year, New You
- My Game Plan (Goal Setting)
- My Life in a Playlist
- My Favorite Series
- My Unique Family or My Unique Friends
- Congratulations! You’re Hired!
- A Time I Was Stereotyped
- Last Year in Review
- Read and Respond: Overcoming Obstacles
- The Perfect App
- Flash Forward: High School Graduation
- Favorite Social Media
- Me as a Child vs. Who I Am Today
- My Pet Peeves PSA
- Adulting: Can’t Wait!
- Greatest Fears
- Celebrate! Create a New Holiday
- Wise Beyond My Years: A Time I Acted with Maturity
This free bell ringer resource includes the following materials:
- Pdf file with Google Drive resource links and implementation notes
- Directions for Microsoft Office users
- 20 High-Interest Bell Ringer Topics with Images on Google Slides
- Writing Journal Response Sheet with labeled topics
- Link to a high-interest video for a view and respond prompt
- Links to 2 nonfiction articles for reading comprehension practice and to facilitate text-to-self and text-to-world connections
✏️ Help your students connect and reflect with these writing prompts that will make them WANT to write!
Use these high-interest prompts for a class starter to help implement structure into your classroom and to provide your students with a point of reflection! The prompts also provide your students with the opportunity to let their voices and opinions to be heard!
All prompts and bell ringers are editable. Just edit and change any references to the specific year, and you can continue using these each year with your students!
The bell ringers and writing prompt topics include the following:
★ My Dream Home
★ New Year, New You
★ Game Plan
★ My Life in a Playlist
★ Read and Respond: World’s Weirdest New Year’s Traditions
★ My Favorite Series
★ My Unique Family or My Unique Friends
★ Congratulations! You’re Hired!
★ A Time I Was Stereotyped
★ Last Year in Review
★ Read and Respond: Overcoming Obstacles
★ Wise Beyond My Years - A Time I Acted with Maturity
★ The Perfect App
★ Flash Forward: High School Graduation
★ Favorite Social Media
★ Me as a Child vs. Me Today
★ My Pet Peeves PSA
★ Adulting: Can’t Wait!
★ My Greatest Fears
★ Celebrate! Create a New Holiday
The topics and modern design of this resource will appeal to middle and high school students. They will WANT to write and respond!
You can find additional high-interest bell ringers and writing prompts for secondary students
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