I first made a Roll ‘n’ Write game to go with my Transportation theme to hopefully spark an interest in writing practice, and it was a huge hit. Since then, I’ve made a few more of these and plan to add many more themes and holidays. This page will be updated with the links to all of the games I create.
Directions
To prepare, print out the Roll ‘n’ Write mat on card stock and either laminate or slip it into a page protector. Write letters on the sides of a wooden cube to make the dice. You can put dot stickers or masking tape squares on the cube so they can be removed, and put new letters on later.
To play, children roll the die and write the letter they rolled in the first square, using a dry erase marker or dry erase crayon. They continue rolling and writing until all of the squares are filled up. When they are done, they can count each letter and determine which have the most/least/same amount.
Games
These are linked to the PDFs for you to print:
Thanks …I look forwards for all your great activity….
Your posts are so informative Karen. Thank. You for sharing. I will also write CCVC words on the dice for my Grade K.
Thank you so much Karen.
I am so excited about you website and the ones you connect us to. A love all of you ideas.
These are adorable and great for practice with letter formation. Thank you!
Thanks for all ypour ideas. Really appreciate them. I do try them out when I have the chance. Have a great week. Prudence
thank you very very much Karen for all of you ideas!!
Thank you Karen. I am so excited about these new activities. I’m printing them this morning so that I can start implementing them immediately. Awesome!
Love, Love, LOVE all the neat ideas I get from your website. Thank you SO much for sharing!!
Karen….every month I do so look forward to all of your great ideas…and my special needs students love them too!!!
Thank you so much!!!
Thank you for the activity I sure can use it for the children at the school.
Thank you so much for putting the Roll and Write game in black and white. I printed and the kids played it. They really enjoy it. Thank you.
thanks for a great activity! My preschool class will love it.
Wow! interesting, I will try it with preschoolers. Thanks!
Can’t wait to use Roll ‘n’ Write. Cute mats.
Thank You !
THANK YOU! These are so fun! I will definitely add these to my routine! 😀
Thank you so much for sharing these great activities.
Just love opening your emails.
Thank you so much for your great activities. You are so. Creative.
You are really a very creative person.
Thank you for sharing these fantastic activities.
Hi Karen
I regularly visit your site. It is really very helpful in designing creative activities for kids.
Thanks
Nan
Thank you for all your great activities they are time savers.
great ideas to modify for my kindergarten classroom
Thank you for sharing your ideas.
You are awesome! I appreciate this, making planning and preparing lesson plan fun and easy.
I would like the roll and write games to have letters the kids can trace (dotted line letters). This would allow children who aren’t quite ready for free hand writing to trace the letters and “graduate” to freehand. Any chance PreKinders could make these?
Thanks!
Chandra
Hi Chandra! Thanks for the suggestion, but I have a rule that I do not post worksheets on my site. I have printable games, but no worksheets or color sheets. Its actually better for the youngest children to have blank spaces to practice writing rather than tracing. Every child may not be able to form a letter, but I accept their best efforts.
Thanks for the response. At the Christian daycare/preschool where I work we start our K2 classes out tracing then “graduate” to writing (in K3). This is why I asked about maybe adding dotted letters to the Roll & Write Games. Our K2’s tracing is a mess at first but once they get the concept they do really well. We continue tracing at the beginning of K3 and then start writing letters/our name later in the year. By the end of K3 our kids are writing there names/letters. Thanks again!
I too caution you against expecting your 3’s and 4’s to do formal tracing activities. You need to encourage pre-writing strengthening activities to prepare their little hands and muscles for more formal writing. I highly recommend the Handwriting Without Tears program for Pre-K.
So cute I can’t wait to print and play. Thanks a bunch 🙂
I love all your activities!! I actually made dice with the beginner writing lines (horizontal, vertical, etc.) for my 3 year old preschool children. They love it!!
Love roll and write, working one to one. This will help encourage hand writing. Thank you.
It’s a great ideas! I’m going to use it for my class!
Many thanks Karen!
Karen, Thank you for sharing so many great ideas. You have the right attitude about learning through authentic, intentional play!!
Oh thank you so much for making these adorable game boards!!!
We need a lot of lower case letter practice and teen number practice and these boards
will work just great for us to toss the dice and record as well as play it with a friend and record what they rolled!
So tremendous of you to share and FREE!
Thank you very much for all of the fun Pre-k activities! I love visiting your site and have incorporated many of your ideas into my curriculum!
Great cute graphics. I purchased your Math word problems activity packet and my students love them. They are becoming great mathematicians.
Thank you Karen..Great ideas!!
Thanks so much Karen for the great ideas..there are helpful and I’m looking forward for some more.
Thank you Karen I love all of your great ideas, Will try some at work. The kids will love them.
Thank you from England Karen! My speech and language children will love this activity!
I always look forward to all of your great ideas to use with the kids, they really enjoy them. Thank you!!
hi there. where do you get those dry erase crayons?
I love all your activities .Thxs
Fun and painless way to practice letters or numbers. Mats are visually appealing. Following roll-n-write use the completed mat for a graphing activity that would make the discussion of more/same/less more concrete.
These are awesome, thank you
These games are so cute! I love the kids on the Earth Day game. However, when I printed the game, the game was up too high and over to the left rather than centered in the middle. As a result, the left side and top got cut off. How do I print these so they come out centered? I could not see any print options to correct for this. Thanks for your help!
Hi, I love these! I enjoy using them, thank you so much for sharing your work!