Question Cubes and Prompt Sticks

I had these great dice from the dollar store. I got two for a dollar.  I decided that I would use some of them as question cubes for Guided Reading.  I color coded them so that it would be easy for me to know which set to use.  The green ones are for my students who are reading bellow grade level.  The blue ones are for my students reading on or above level and the red ones are for non fiction books.  I love that they are made out of foam because they won't make too much noise when the students roll them on the table. These could be good for group discussion at the end of Guided Reading or it could be fun for the students to roll to determine what they will write about in their Guided Reading response journals. 

Dice, the questions, scissors, and a whole bunch of mod podge was all I needed for this project.  And some t.v. shows to watch while making them of course. 

Grab my questions for FREE HERE!

Another thing that I worked on today was a journal prompt jar.  I started with the prompts last year but then the project didn't get finished in time for school and they just sat around. If you are ever stuck on journal prompts I LOVE looking at this website for ideas.   

Now when I hear the oh so common "I don't know what to write about", I can simply reply "Go pick a journal stick."