Use this resource with your students to practice not only identifying the problem and solution in a text, but also the character’s attempts at solving the problem.

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

Use an open-ended graphic organizer to help your students identify the problem and solution in three stories.

Encourage children to reflect on the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution with this multi-page worksheet.

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: What Was the Problem?

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Problem and Solution Practice.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Word Problem Vocabulary Preparation.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: What Was the Problem?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Problem and Solution Practice.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Word Problem Vocabulary Preparation.

Your little writer will use his imagination to bend time and space with this creative writing prompt. Where will he go and what will he see?

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.