April Showers Roll a Story

Rainy days make for great stories! With this April showers roll a story activity, students roll a die to choose a character, setting, and problem, then spin it all into a rainy day tale.

Simple Steps

1. Roll the die for each story element.
2. Read the matching choices.
3. Plan and write a rainy day adventure.
4. Add an illustration to finish it off.

Skills in Focus

Story planning, characters and settings, problems and solutions, sentence development, and descriptive language. Most importantly, it builds confidence for young writers by removing the fear of the blank page.

Perfect For

• Spring and weather units
• April writing centers and morning work
• Early finishers and sub plans
• Homeschool writing practice

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