This Day in History October Bell Ringers | Daily Language | Morning Work

Teach middle school? Save time in your day by having students practice comprehension, grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary, and more all while also reading nonfiction historical events.

This Day in History Bell Ringers is one page for students to complete every day in October. Students read the nonfiction passage that is based on a historical event that happened that same day in history. Then they answer 2-4 questions (depending on the day) about the passage. These questions range from reading comprehension, grammar, sentence structure, etc. Students can complete the whole thing individually and then you can go over it with them when they are done.

The topics are aligned to Common Core Standards for grades 5-7, though 8th grade could complete it as a review. I would caution using this product for any student below 5th grade as the historical topics can sometimes be a bit heavy.

As with my This Day in History Calendar, these topics cover world-wide events; however, the focus is more on American history than any other country and would probably be best for American schools.

Save $ by buying the bundle for the whole year.

⭐ Digital Version Now Included: Included is a link to access all the pages in Google Forms, included with directions for you to assign in Google Classroom. Questions that are multiple choice or one-word answer are self-checking. The sentence answers will need to be manually graded.

What's Included?

-31 pages - one for each day in October

- complete answer key

New Topics for October

- simple verb tenses

- perfect and progressive verb tenses

- appositive phrases

- verb phrases

- linking and helping verbs

- preposition

- prepositional phrases

Spiral Topics Reviewed:

- basic parts of speech

- punctuation

- comprehension questions

- using text evidence

- using context clues

- multiple meaning words

- subjects and predicates

- rearranging sentences

- prefixes and suffixes

- root words

- proper and possessive nouns

- writing a timeline

- italicized titles

- hyphens and dashes

- main idea and details

- independent and dependent clauses

- direct objects

- transitive and intransitive verbs

- subject and predicate

- conjunctions, including coordinating and subordinating

- simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences

- appositives

Please see the preview file for more details.

Would you like to use these same topics as a calendar bulletin board in your classroom? See these products below:

This Day in History Classroom Calendar

Digital This Day in History Calendar