• IDEA! Put a different prompt on each side of the cube.
• IDEA! Provide cubes of varying degrees of difficulty.
• IDEA!  Create three cubes. CUBE 1: Provide six character ideas.  CUBE 2: Provide six setting alternatives.  CUBE 3: Provide six problem prompts.  Challenge students to roll all three cubes. Create a story using the character, setting, and problem they rolled!
• IDEA!  Use two cubes.  On one cube, provide six question words (who, what, why, where, when, how). Use the other cube to provide six verb cues (can't, won't, will, should, can, shouldn't). Challenge students to roll both to create book discussion questions.
• IDEA! Click on the walking book for book activities to cut and paste on cubes. 
• IDEA! Create wonderful opportunities for vocabulary enrichment.  Using the beautiful photographs from old calendars, generate questions on cubes. For sample questions:  CLICK HERE FOR LOWER ELEMENTARY
• CLICK HERE FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY
• Here are more cubing templates:

Kids will give you a thumbs up with this  SHOW & TELL activity!  Now, you can use this activity to differentiate.  Here's how it works:
       Students will be given two rows of choices.  From the first row, students select one way they would like to show what they know. From the second row, students select one way they would like to tell about what they showed! 
        For an example,  CLICK HERE

        Create your own using the verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy.  Remember that verbs become more complex and challenging as you move from box 1 to box 6 when you 
                            CLICK HERE

Got the hang of it? Now, you can vary it with these novel Show & Tell templates. (HINT: Make each column progressively more challenging.):
Level One
Level Two
Level Three
Level Four

These activities are guaranteed to keep kids smiling!

Looking for literary webquests for your students?
For adolescent literature: CLICK HERE
For secondary literature:  CLICK HERE