‘Roll- A-Story’ is the game that screams speech therapy!!!. There are endless options for story creation. However once you sit down to play this game, you realize that it may be too open-ended. It seems that this game works if you create a structured lesson with the story cubes as an enhancement. They just don’t make the cut on their own:(.
This story dice set from Junior Learning includes dice for these categories: people, animals, food, places, transport, feelings, weather, actions, sports, objects.
If kids are unfamiliar with the game then it would be important to review all of the pictures to ensure proper understanding. Then group the dice in groups of 3 or 4 to create stories. Have the students toss the dice and create a story or sentence from using the pictures on the cubes. For students with low language skills this can be very challenging as they need more of a scaffold to create a correct sentence. For high level language students the game can easily get boring and repetitive as they may have difficulty stringing together a cohesive story using unrelated items.
Create structure in your sessions with story cubes:
Take a look at our Story-Cubes Pinterest Boards for materials that will give your session with story cubes some structure. Pinterest: Story Cubes
Don’t wanna spend $$ on story cubes:
Make your own game: Free Teachers Pay Teachers Download
Want to Get super creative?
Create your own dice to play with. Order 144 dice for $20 (comes with self-adhesive labels)
Roll-A-Story
$9.99
Pros
- Multiple Category types in 1 set
- Endless possibilities
- Durable
- Kids love dice
- Multiple Colors in the Set
Cons
- Pictures can be hard to discern on some of the dice
- No structured play options
- Too open ended
- Hard to create a cohesive story from the pictures
This was a very helpful review. I was thinking about this for speech and language therapy. Thank you.