January Daily Morning Work ELA Bell Ringer for Middle School

COME ONE, COME ALL!

Daily ELA Morning Work for January!

This journal holds:

~Fantastic Fiction

~Notorious Nonfiction

~Perfect Poetry

~Quizical Questions

~and Theatrical Thoughts!

All passages are accompanied by relevant and meaningful questions to help your students review and master those English elements that appear on state standards.

Includes:

Close read,

Deciphering meaning,

Text dependent questions

Poetic elements

Elements of Fiction

Synthesizing

Applying and Analyzing

Vocabulary (students may even pull out a dictionary!)

and so much more!!

How To Use:

✏Bell Ringers

✏Warm Ups

✏Sub Work

✏Extra work when assignments are complete

✏Homework/ Classwork

This Journal Includes:

✏ Illustration Inspection - Asking students to be observant, identify and note key

details within an image. Here we invite students to ask questions that lead to more

observations and reflections.

✏ Elements of Fiction – A fictional passage with close read questions is presented.

Concepts can be any fictional element including (but not limited to) point of view,

characterization, plot, mood, theme, etc.

✏ Did You Know? – Nonfiction elements are key in this activity. Did you know offers

interesting facts about a topic that many students will find fascinating and probably

won’t know!

✏What Would You Do? – A scenario is proposed and students are to answer how

they would handle the situation.

✏ Quote Connection (with A bit o’ fun) – A quote is given and students are to

answer questions regarding the world, themselves, and meaning.

✏ Finish the Story – A paragraph (sometimes two) is written to begin a plot. The last

sentence is incomplete, where students are to complete the sentence and move the

plot forward with their own creativity.

✏ Poetry Analysis – Analyzing a poem using poetic elements.

✏ What Time Is It? – A nonfiction historical text is presented in this activity. Students

are to read and answer the questions relating to the text.

✏ Literary Lessons – This activity incorporates Classic literature. Close read/

deciphering meaning are key elements in this activity.

✏ Creative Logic- These are fun activities allowing students to use their knowledge

and creativity together.

✏ Vocabulary Review – Throughout the four weeks, there are vocabulary terms that

are bolded and underlined. These terms are analyzed in this activity.

✏ Monthly Reflection – Reflecting upon the month in this last activity and writing goals

for the following month.

20 different activities:

✏Relevant to common core and state standards!

✏Student calendar for ensuring completion and tracking progress

✏No prep work, just print and go!

Ideally each days’ activity will take no more than 8-10 minutes. Some may take less.

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