Roll A Dice Writing Activity

Hopefully this roll a character fun writing activity will help.

Roll a dice writing activity.

How to set up the roll a character writing. We need to show a random value from 1 to 6 on our dice. Check out additional roll a story resources. 1 roll a story writing chart 1 my story graphic organizer.

There are 4 dice two for adjectives one for nouns and a final one for verbs. Students roll a die to determine their story s characters setting and problem. 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. Roll two dice and add up their sum.

With this writing activity students will love rolling a dice to mix and match story elements and will enjoy creating the perfect story starter. Want a copy of my roll a story activity. If they roll a six they look at the sixth box under the setting column. So let s make a local variable called roll.

We can use show leds to display the side of a dice that shows 6. For example if they 1st roll a 2 they look at the character box that is numbered down the side with a 2. Use it in a literacy center a writing group or to send home with your students. 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.

We will show a 6 if roll is 5 because roll has a range from 0 to 5. However i created this as a digital writing activity in google slides for several reasons. Get the free full printable worksheet at sarah s first grade snippets. First of all there is absolutely nothing wrong with the traditional roll a story activities that involve a set of dice pencil and paper.

Then they roll again to determine their problem. 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. Then determine which coins to use to add up to that number and draw them on the worksheet. Dice games help spice up vocabulary practice something many kids find dull.

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. There are 3 parts to this set the dice the drawing writing pages and the booklet. 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.