Roll and Write Sentences with Quotation Marks

Working on quotation marks with your students/child? This FUN and engaging game is the perfect way to learn how to use them…plus kids practice spelling at the same time! Like my Roll and Write Different Kinds of Sentences, spelling words are integrated right into the activity!

Note: The free download link is found towards the END of this post. Just click on the teal, oval button!

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Introducing How to Use Quotation Marks

Before kids do any rolling or writing, you first want to be sure that they know how to use quotation marks within a sentence. This is an important step to review so that the activity isn’t frustrating for the child. It’s also important that kids know how to do this if you expect them to do this independently, like at a center.

With my son, I used this quick quotation marks chart. {Of course, these are not the only 3 reasons quotation marks should be used, but they served our purpose.}

If this subject seems boring to kids, it might help to insert their names instead of using a pronoun. It also helps if you make the quotes funny. Using dirty diapers somehow in my example always brings a smile to my kids’ faces. 😉

Roll & Write Sentences with Quotation Marks

Just like our sentence writing rolling activity, I had two dice.

An editable die for words. The editable word die for the printable die, seen in the above image, is on the download at the end of this post. The editable word inserts for the Learning Cubes are in my sight word inserts post. I typed in some of his sight words for the week on our Learning Cubes. These also fit in Carson Dellosa’s cubes.
A die for different kinds of people, including a mom, firefighter, king, baby, angry girl, and running boy.

The idea is to roll both dice. The child has to write a sentence, making the person on the die say something using the spelling word rolled. I slipped the recording sheet into a plastic sleeve protector and he used dry erase marker to make the activity re-usable.

My 1st grader only wrote the quote part and not the tag {the part of the sentence that says, said the mom}. But that was okay with me because he was still practicing writing with quotation marks!

I love how the same word can be rolled, but rolling a different kind of person can change the entire sentence. I also love how addicting this activity was for my 1st grader {he didn’t want to stop}…and he learned more about using quotation marks!

Adapting for Older or Younger Learners

The download comes with recording pages more appropriate for young learners as well as one that would apply more for older learners. Changing the sight words is an easy way to adapt it for older or younger learners. Another quick way to adapt it for older learners is to ask the child to write cursive.

Older writers might also be required to write longer sentences, including the tag, instead of just writing the quote itself like you see in the example above.