Roll A Dice Writing Activity

Dice games help spice up vocabulary practice something many kids find dull.

Roll a dice writing activity.

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. Get the free full printable worksheet at sarah s first grade snippets. Roll two dice and add up their sum. We will show a 6 if roll is 5 because roll has a range from 0 to 5.

So let s make a local variable called 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. Then determine which coins to use to add up to that number and draw them on the worksheet. Use it in a literacy center a writing group or to send home with your students.

There are 4 dice two for adjectives one for nouns and a final one for verbs. Set a list of words then give each kid a die to roll. 1 roll a story writing chart 1 my story graphic organizer. 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.

Check out additional roll a story resources. If they roll a six they look at the sixth box under the setting column. 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. We can use show leds to display the side of a dice that shows 6.

However i created this as a digital writing activity in google slides for several reasons. Then they roll again to determine their problem. How to set up the roll a character writing. 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. Want a copy of my roll a story activity. 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. 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.