Roll A Dice Writing Activity

Then they roll again to determine their problem.

Roll a dice writing activity.

With this writing activity students will love rolling a dice to mix and match story elements and will enjoy creating the perfect story starter. Dice games help spice up vocabulary practice something many kids find dull. Use it in a literacy center a writing group or to send home with your students. Roll of the dice writing winter step away from the traditional story starters and let a toss of the dice motivate student writing.

We will show a 6 if roll is 5 because roll has a range from 0 to 5. 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. If they roll a six they look at the sixth box under the setting column. Want a copy of my roll a story 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. For example if they 1st roll a 2 they look at the character box that is numbered down the side with a 2. Set a list of words then give each kid a die to roll. However i created this as a digital writing activity in google slides for several reasons.

Hopefully this roll a character fun writing activity will help. 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. Roll two dice and add up their sum.

There are 3 parts to this set the dice the drawing writing pages and the booklet. There are 4 dice two for adjectives one for nouns and a final one for verbs. 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. Check out additional roll a story resources.

Students roll a die to determine their story s characters setting and problem. 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. How to set up the roll a character writing. So let s make a local variable called roll.

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. We can use show leds to display the side of a dice that shows 6. Then determine which coins to use to add up to that number and draw them on the worksheet.