Teaching Resource
Free Download: Roll to Create a Gingerbread House
A fun, hands-on holiday activity using a die and a chart to create a gingerbread house to include in a narrative text.
Use this holiday teaching resource to create the setting for a narrative text.
How to use this resource:
- Roll the die. Match the number rolled to a row on the chart, and see which feature is in the ‘1st Roll’ column. Draw it onto a blank piece of paper.
- Roll again. Match the number to a row on the chart, and see which feature is in the ‘2nd Roll’ column. Add this element to your drawing.
- Continue in this same manner until you have all six elements of your gingerbread house in the setting.
- Write a narrative text that includes your gingerbread house in the setting.
This resource works great as a writing center activity during the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Have you seen our other Christmas Roll to Create Activities?
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.3
Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
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English Language Arts and ReadingWritingNarrative WritingImaginative Prompts and Story StartersText Types and PurposeTemplatesChristmasRoll to Create ActivitiesWriting Center Activities
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Distribute these role cards to your students to assist them in performing their reciprocal teaching role during reading groups. The reciprocal teaching roles explained on the cards include:
- the questioner
- the clarifier
- the predictor
- the summariser.
by Stephanie (Teach Starter) Jun 20th, 2017
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