Engage students with grammar, writing, and reading activities while they are getting ready for your literacy lesson. These literacy warm up activities will get students thinking about different literacy topics and ready for the day’s lesson.
Sometimes you need a few minutes at the beginning of class or right before a lesson to take attendance, gather materials, organize digital presentations, or just collect your thoughts!
These warm up activities for students in upper elementary are the perfect bellringer activity to offer you that needed prep time, all while providing your students with valuable daily literacy practice.
✨Please take a look at the PREVIEW for more details and images of what is included with this literacy bell work resource.
What’s Included in this Resource:
✅100% Text editable Google slides – for the ENTIRE YEAR
✅38 Weeks of Digital Literacy Warm Ups (enough for the entire school year)
✅An alliteration themed topic for each day of the week:
- Making Meaning Monday
- Two Task Tuesday
- Wordy Wednesday
- Three Task Thursday
- Fix It Friday
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How Can You Use These Daily Literacy Activities in Your Classroom?
- Literacy morning work – As students enter the classroom in the morning or at the beginning of the class period, they are expected to begin working on these ELA bellringers
- Guided Reading Warm Up – Provide students with these literacy activity challenges to get their minds going before small group reading. Or use them as part of your guided reading activities
- Use the slides as part of your morning meeting to challenge students and get their brains thinking
- Simply present the daily slides for students and allow them to either record their responses in a notebook, or a digital form like a Google doc
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Using these daily literacy activities is EASY as 1..
✅Share the digital slides with your students on your LMS or present them on a projector screen
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What Skills Are Covered?
- Reflective writing when students are asked to respond to what a quote means to them
- Identifying parts of speech practice
- Use of a vocabulary graphic organizer to determine a definition and synonym of a given word
- Practice identifying subject and predicate of sentences
- Revising and editing practice
- Grammar practice including capitalization and punctuation, and adding punctuation marks
- Error analysis of standard English
What Activities Do Students Complete Each Day?
- Making Meaning Monday – Students reflect on a quote of the week describing what the quote means, how it affects them, and creating a visual representation of the quote’s meaning
- Two Task Tuesday – Students copy a given sentence and label all of its parts of speech
- Wordy Wednesday – Students use a vocabulary graphic organizer to identify the definition of a given vocabulary word, and then find a synonym, use it in an original sentence, and draw a picture
- Three Task Thursday – Using the given sentence from previously in the week, students label the subject and predicate, and then revise the sentence to make it more descriptive or exciting
- Fix It Friday – Students edit a sentence for spelling, punctuation, and grammar using error analysis strategies
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✨Don’t like one of the quotes of the week? No problem! Text is 100% editable so you can change it!
✨Have a good idea for one of the sentences that students label? Great! You can edit the text of all of the sentences and make them your own.
✨Want to use the vocabulary graphic organizer for students to practice with your district provided vocabulary list? You can edit the vocabulary words too!
✨Have a funny sentence that is personalized to your students? Plug that in to Fix It Friday by adding in some grammar mistakes!