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Increase your students' reading comprehension skills as well as their critical thinking skills with this one set of bell ringers. This set includes short, high interest reading comprehension activities (bell ringers). They can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips. They are non-fiction and science-based. These activities can help you teach your students how to locate text evidence, find main idea, locate supporting details, and identify the author’s point of view.

Prepositional phrases can be used as either adjectives or adverbs. Sometimes, it can be hard to determine which one is which. Supercharge your students understanding of prepositional phrases like never before. With this interactive educational resource, students will dive headfirst into the world of grammar, specifically focusing on distinguishing between prepositional phrases that function as adjectives and those that function as adverbs. Say goodbye to confusion and hello to clarity as you emb

Paragraphs could flow smoothly and be coherent. So, editing is a critical part of the writing process. However, it can be difficult to get students to identify sentences that don’t belong. The following brief exercises can be used to do just that. This set includes 2o pargraphs that contains a sentence that doesn’t belong. There are 2 paragraphs per page. They can be used as a part of a literary center, as exit slips, or as pre-tests or post-tests. If you like this activity, be sure to c

Imagery can be difficult to teach. However, this no-prep set of poems and flash fiction make teaching imagery easy. The following is a collection of poems and flash fiction stories that contain imagery. You will use them to help your students locate and discuss the imagery in them. Have your students read the poem or the text, answer some simple questions, and then discuss the images that each selection created. These easy exercises will get your students to think critically about what they ar

The following are short high interest bell ringers (reading comprehension activities). They can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips. These activities can help you teach your students how to locate text features, text structures, main ideas, and supporting details. This set includes 24 bellringers, their answer key, a text structure chart, and a text feature chart. If you like this activity, be sure to check out some more of my products. Bellringers for Middle &

School is almost out. Your students have been with you this year. Find out how much they know about you. This is a fun quiz to test their "teacher" knowledge.

These reading comprehension activities have been especially designed with your struggling readers in mind. So many students are visual learners that reading may seem difficult and boring. So, what do you do? You start slow. Let’s start with some fun and interesting pictures. This activity can be used with students are young as the 1st grade and go up as far as the seventh grade. They can be used with your special education student and your English as a Second Language Students. This activity ca

Boost your child's reading comprehension skills with these reading activities! Designed specifically for 5th and 6th grade students, this incredible resource includes 22 high-interest short reading passages and questions that will captivate their imaginations and keep them engaged from start to finish. These questions were created to help your child develop essential reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying main ideas, making inferences, locate supporting details, identify mood, an

The following Reading Based Christmas-themed bell ringers are short high interest (reading comprehension activities) that your students will love. They can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips. These activities can help you teach your students how to locate text features, text structures, main ideas, and supporting details. This set includes 22 ELA bellringers, their answer key, a text structure chart, and a text feature chart. If you like this activity, be su

The following is are writing prompts that are based on The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake. They can be used along with the book to increase the students’ comprehension of the text.

The following is a review game for verb forms. You will need to have taught the students about helping verbs, linking verbs, and main verbs. This can be used at the beginning of class or at the end. Please be aware that there are only 12 cards. I recommend printing these cards off on cardstock and laminating them. Then, provide students with an answer key sheet. This way they can be used over and over again. All you have to do is set a time for 15 to 30 seconds depending on the students age and

These 20 task cards can be used as a ELA test prep activity, a simply review activity, bell ringers, exit slips, or as a pre-test or post-test activity. These task cards ask students to differentiate between linking verbs and main verbs. The first 10 cards ask the students to identify the verb that is underlined. The next 10 cards ask the students to look at three different sentences and then locate either the linking verb or the action verb. I recommend printing these cards off on cardsto

The following Bell Ringers are short, high interest reading comprehension activities. They can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips. These ELA Bell Ringers can help you teach your students how to locate text features, text structures, main ideas, and supporting details.This set of ELA Reading Bell Ringers includes 20 bellringers, their answer key, a text structure chart, and a text feature chart. Be sure to check out some of my other bellringers for middle & hi

Halloween is just around the corner. Use these short, high interest ELA bell ringers to spice up your daily lessons. These 24 bell ringers celebrate this ghoulish season while teaching your students the reading comprehension skills they need. These reading comprehension activities were especially designed for use this October. They have stories that reference the fall season and Halloween. These bell ringers are reading based, and they can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class,

Do your students get confused trying to differentiate between linking verbs and helping verbs? You are not alone. Teach your students to recognize the difference between the two using these 24 task cards. The first 20 task cards ask the students to read the sentences on the card and to then determine whether the verb used is a helping verb or a linking verb. The last 4 task cards ask the students to read a set of sentences and then choose the one that identifies the linking verb. These card

My students love to play games, and I am sure yours do too. The following is a fun PowerPoint game you can use to help your students distinguish between adjectives and adverbs. This is the second game. Copy the letter cards onto cardstock. Then, cut the letters out. Laminate them to make sure that last for more than one use. Then, either clip or paste them to rulers or fly swatters. Place your students in teams. Give each team a set of answer cards. Show each slide. The teams must hold up the

The following Halloween Themed ELA Bell Ringers are short high interest bell ringers (reading comprehension activities). These spooky Reading Activities can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips. This set of 20 Halloween Themed Reading Comprehension activities can help you teach your students how to locate text features, text structures, main ideas, and supporting details. The set of ELA bell ringers includes 20 bell ringers, their answer key, a text structure

A new school year is underway, and you are trying to make your Social Studies class as relevant as possible. One way to do that is by conducting an interest inventory. The following is a short interest inventory quiz that will give you a general idea about what your students want to learn. The pre-test that is included will let you know how much history your students already know. You can give the pre-test at the beginning of the year and again at the end of the year to see how much your stu

The following are short high interest bell ringers (reading comprehension activities). They can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips. These activities can help you teach your students how to locate text features, text structures, main ideas, and supporting details. This set includes 22 bellringers, their answer key, a text structure chart, and a text feature chart. If you like this activity, be sure to check out some more of my products. October Bellringers for M

The following ELA Bell Ringers are short high interest fiction bell ringers for Black History Month. These Bell Ringers are reading comprehension activities. They can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips.Please noted that these are fictional excerpts that focus on famous African-American figures or historical events. They are not meant to be used as informational text.These black history themed Reading Activities can help you teach your students how to locate tex