English Language Arts Bell Ringers Unit 2 - 45 Warm-Ups (Grades 6-8)

Start every class with a focused five-minute warm-up. This is Unit 2 of the English Language Arts Bell-Ringers full-year set: 45 daily prompts covering Reading Literature.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• 45 daily bell-ringers (Weeks 10-18), organized as nine ready-to-print weekly pages
• One page per week: five prompts, Monday through Friday, with answer space
• A complete answer key for every prompt
• A standards page listing the CCSS codes and content covered

TOPICS

• Plot and story structure, conflict, characterization, setting, point of view and the narrator, theme, figurative language, tone and mood, and a closing week analyzing a short passage.

WEEKLY ROUTINE

• Monday vocabulary, Tuesday a short reading, Wednesday an analysis task, Thursday a quick check, Friday a higher-order question
• About five minutes a day; hand out Monday, collect Friday

FORMAT

• Print-first PDF, US Letter, low-ink, two-sided friendly - no logins or apps required
• Every reading passage is original writing - no copyrighted text to clear
• Grades 6-8; works as a daily opener, spiral review, or emergency sub work

SAVE WITH THE FULL YEAR

• This unit is one of four. Buy the English Language Arts Bell-Ringers Full-Year set (180 prompts) to get all four units together and save.

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TERMS OF USE

• For single-classroom / single-teacher use. Do not redistribute or post publicly.
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