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.

Roll a dice writing activity.

For example if they 1st roll a 2 they look at the character box that is numbered down the side with a 2. Roll of the dice writing winter step away from the traditional story starters and let a toss of the dice motivate student writing. 1 roll a story writing chart 1 my story graphic organizer. Use it in a literacy center a writing group or to send home with your students.

Set a list of words then give each kid a die to roll. Get the free full printable worksheet at sarah s first grade snippets. We need to show a random value from 1 to 6 on our dice. Hopefully this roll a character fun writing activity will help.

Students roll a die to determine their story s characters setting and problem. Then they roll again to determine their problem. If they roll a six they look at the sixth box under the setting column. Dice games help spice up vocabulary practice something many kids find dull.

There are 3 parts to this set the dice the drawing writing pages and the booklet. 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. Want a copy of my roll a story activity. Then determine which coins to use to add up to that number and draw them on the worksheet.

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. How to set up the roll a character writing.

Roll two dice and add up their sum. Check out additional roll a story resources. 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 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.

We can use show leds to display the side of a dice that shows 6. 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.