Roll A Dice Writing Activity

Use it in a literacy center a writing group or to send home with your students.

Roll a dice writing activity.

This summer i taught a writing workshop at a local bookstore and had my students create story starters using the following roll a story chart. Want a copy of my roll a story activity. There are 3 parts to this set the dice the drawing writing pages and the booklet. Then determine which coins to use to add up to that number and draw them on the worksheet.

If they roll a six they look at the sixth box under the setting column. With this engaging and fun writing activity your students and a roll of a die will decide characters setting theme figurative language and vocabulary from a menu. So let s make a local variable called roll. However i created this as a digital writing activity in google slides for several reasons.

Check out additional roll a story resources. For example if they 1st roll a 2 they look at the character box that is numbered down the side with a 2. Aug 15 2012 check out this clever literacy dice game from kristin jordan at reading writing thinking sharing just click on the picture above t. There are 4 dice two for adjectives one for nouns and a final one for verbs.

How to set up the roll a character writing. Set a list of words then give each kid a die to roll. With this writing activity students will love rolling a dice to mix and match story elements and will enjoy creating the perfect story starter. With each roll of the dice three total the students had a character setting and problem to use as a basis for their creative stories.

1 roll a story writing chart 1 my story graphic organizer. We need to show a random value from 1 to 6 on our dice. We will show a 6 if roll is 5 because roll has a range from 0 to 5. First of all there is absolutely nothing wrong with the traditional roll a story activities that involve a set of dice pencil and paper.

Input ongesture gesture shake let roll randint 0 6 we need a condition for if roll is 5. Students roll a die to determine their story s characters setting and problem. Roll of the dice writing winter step away from the traditional story starters and let a toss of the dice motivate student writing. Hopefully this roll a character fun writing activity will help.

We can use show leds to display the side of a dice that shows 6. Feel free to print the slides and use as a paper version from this download delete the text boxes on the writing sheets before printing. Get the free full printable worksheet at sarah s first grade snippets.