Roll A Story Printable – Creative Writing Activity

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This is a Roll A Story Printable that your learners will love!

Students will roll the dice 3 times and mark the character, setting, and story line that they rolled.

There are many different mats to choose from for each season. So, these are perfect to place in your writing centers.

There are blank writing pages included.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Combine a randomly generated character, setting, and story-line prompt into a coherent story idea.
Draft an original short story with a title, using the rolled elements as a starting point.
Illustrate a scene from the student's own story.

Teaching tips

Use the three general-purpose grids for regular writing workshop and save the seasonal grids for the matching time of year.
Have students roll as a whole-class warm-up on chart paper before individual writing, to model how mismatched elements (e.g., a fish as a pilot) can still form a fun story.
Pair the roll grid with the included illustration page so writing and drawing are assigned together rather than as separate tasks.

Skills covered

Combining a character, setting and story-line prompt selected by three die rolls
Planning and drafting an original narrative
Illustrating a scene from a written story

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

What is needed to use the roll grids?

Provide a six-sided die and writing materials. Roll three times to select one character, one setting and one story-line prompt; the PDF supplies the grids and story-writing pages.

1 review

Liyana Azman | March 9th 2025

fun, engaging writing activity

Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

W.3.3

Core concepts

Creative writing
Story elements
Narrative structure

Topics

Story elements Dice writing Character setting problem Narrative writing

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