Students roll a die to determine their story s characters setting and problem.
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.
There are 3 parts to this set the dice the drawing writing pages and the booklet.
However i created this as a digital writing activity in google slides for several reasons.
For example if they 1st roll a 2 they look at the character box that is numbered down the side with a 2.
There are 4 dice two for adjectives one for nouns and a final one for verbs.
Hopefully this roll a character fun writing activity will help.
Use it in a literacy center a writing group or to send home with your students.
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.
Roll of the dice writing winter step away from the traditional story starters and let a toss of the dice motivate student writing.
With this writing activity students will love rolling a dice to mix and match story elements and will enjoy creating the perfect story starter.
We can use show leds to display the side of a dice that shows 6.
How to set up the roll a character writing.
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.
Dice games help spice up vocabulary practice something many kids find dull.
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.
Roll two dice and add up their sum.
Get the free full printable worksheet at sarah s first grade snippets.
1 roll a story writing chart 1 my story graphic organizer.
If they roll a six they look at the sixth box under the setting column.
Want a copy of my roll a story 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.
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.
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Then they roll again to determine their problem.
So let s make a local variable called roll.