Boost student engagement with year-long bell ringers for middle school and above! These daily activities are perfect for morning work and include sentence editing, creative writing, and fun word puzzles and other activities to motivate students every day. Build essential writing skills while making learning fun with creative tasks that encourage focus and participation. From quick editing challenges to imaginative writing prompts, these activities will keep students inspired and ready to…

If you do not know where to start, but want to introduce bell ringers in your class, I’ll share with you one of the bell ringers I use this year.

Your middle and high school students will enjoy responding to these fun bell ringer questions which transition them into an academic mindset!

Bell ringers are warm-up activities that students complete at the beginning of class—when the bell rings—while teachers get ready for their day.

Looking for fun reading and ELA bell ringers for middle school ELA? Click here for a free week's worth of 6th grade, 7th grade, & 8th grade bell ringers that focus on context clues and much more! These quick and fun bell ringers are the perfect way to start class! Your students in grade 6, grade 7, or grade 8 will love the engaging reading passage, and you will love the practice they get with reading comprehension!

An effective bell ringer routine for high school students.

Years ago, at a workshop, I was introduced to Jeff Anderson's Power Writing. The basic idea (or at least how it was conveyed to me at the workshop) is this:Round One: Give students two words

If you aren’t using bell ringers in your secondary ELA classroom - you should. Starting class with bell ringers is an excellent strategy to help your students