Description
Included in this resource is a PowerPoint presentation featuring 200 Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA, specifically designed for 7th and 8th grade. With 200 ready-to-use prompts, this product provides more than enough bell ringers to last an entire school year, making daily warm-ups simple, consistent, and effective.
Bell ringers, also known as warm-ups or do-nows, are an excellent way to establish routine and maximize instructional time. Students enter the classroom, settle in quickly, and immediately begin working on their daily ELA prompt. These questions are intentionally designed to reinforce essential skills, spiral review key concepts, and support test preparation throughout the year. Teachers can easily move between slides or categories to align with current lessons and curriculum pacing.
The bell ringers span a wide range of core English Language Arts skills, including grammar, usage, writing, and literary analysis. Students practice parts of speech, grammatical corrections such as subject-verb agreement, fragments, capitalization, and misplaced or dangling modifiers, as well as figurative language concepts like metaphor, simile, irony, idioms, symbolism, and hyperbole. The presentation also includes prompts focused on literary devices, sentence structure, Greek and Latin roots, active and passive voice, verbals, verb moods, punctuation, and connotation versus denotation.
This resource is especially effective for daily review, skill reinforcement, and standardized test prep, as it allows students to revisit concepts repeatedly in short, manageable bursts. The PowerPoint format makes it easy to project, assign, or adapt for whole-class instruction.
Created with real classroom use in mind, this resource is one I personally use with 8th grade students to help prepare for the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), but it is easily adaptable for a variety of middle school ELA settings.
Perfect for middle school English teachers, this year-long bell ringer resource helps build routine, confidence, and mastery—one warm-up at a time.