English Language Arts Bell Ringers Unit 3 - 45 Warm-Ups (Grades 9-12)

Start every class with a focused five-minute warm-up. This is Unit 3 of the English Language Arts Bell-Ringers full-year set: 45 daily prompts covering Informational Text & Synthesis.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• 45 daily bell-ringers (Weeks 19-27), 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

• Central idea and objective summary, nonfiction text structure, author's purpose and stance, source credibility, bias and framing, statistical claims, synthesizing across sources, research questions, and paraphrase versus plagiarism.

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
• Reading passages are original writing; the only quoted lines are public-domain Shakespeare - no copyrighted text to clear
• Grades 9-12; works as a daily opener, spiral review, AP or exam warm-up, 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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