Just over a year ago we posted this. In the past year we've used those dice in our classrooms. The original idea of rolling a dice didn't quite work as any sentence doesn't always work in the context of a piece of writing. We have however used the dice in our lessons more as a 3D reference tool. Children quite like looking at them for inspiration.
In August 2014, Alan Peat contacted us:
@PrimaryIdeas I've RT'd but do you know what I think would work even better - dice with appropriate sentence types for different genres
— Alan Peat (@alanpeat) August 9, 2014
As a result, we've created a set of dice that link to text types.
These dice are based upon the following book: Writing Exciting Sentences The book has been followed up with associated apps. Also a credit to Bryn Goodman, whose advice about which sentences fit each text type was essential.
We hope the dice are useful and thank you again to Alan Peat for his resources.
