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3rd - 6th Grade Common Core Problem and Solution Educational Resources

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

Finding the Problem and the Solution with Question Words

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

Practice with Problem & Solution

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

Explain the Problem

Learn all about conflict in literature and how it makes the story possible in this conflict in literature worksheet.

Conflict in Literature

Use this awesome story mountain template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. Students will use this activity to organize their thoughts about the beginning, problem, climax, solution, and ending of a story.

Story Mountain

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

Graphic Organizer: Problem & Solution

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

Story Rollercoaster

Use this graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Elements of a Story: Circle Chart

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.

A Motivated Problem Solver

This graphic organizer guides readers to&nbsp;complete a story map&nbsp;of their reading by having them record the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Complete a Story Map

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

Problem & Solution Organizer

Kids can demonstrate their understanding of what they are reading with this printable bookmark.

Problem and Solution Bookmark

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

Glossary: Problem and Solution Practice

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

Vocabulary Cards: Problem and Solution Practice

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of&nbsp;The Great Fire.

Book Study: The Great Fire: Discussion Guide #3

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students continue reading&nbsp;The Great Fire.

Book Study: The Great Fire: Discussion Guide #2

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Novel Discussion Guide for Teachers

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

Novel Discussion Guide for Parents

Support critical thinking and literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of Rick Riordan&rsquo;s The Lightning Thief.

Novel Study: The Lightning Thief: Discussion Guide #4 

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 19&ndash;25 of Anne of Green Gables.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #3

Help students reflect on chapters 5&ndash;8 of&nbsp;Madeleine L&rsquo;Engle&rsquo;s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Novel Study: A Wrinkle in Time: Discussion Guide #2

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 9&ndash;18 of Anne of Green Gables.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #2

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for Mildred D. Taylor&rsquo;s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.&nbsp;

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Discussion Guide #1 

Help students reflect on chapters 9&ndash;12 of&nbsp;Madeleine L&rsquo;Engle&rsquo;s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Novel Study: A Wrinkle in Time: Discussion Guide #3

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for chapter 5&ndash;8 of&nbsp;Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Discussion Guide #2 

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 26&ndash;33 of Lucy Maud Montgomery&rsquo;s Anne of Green Gables.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #4

Encourage critical thinking and support your students&rsquo; literacy development by asking questions as they read the final chapters of Lucy Maud Montgomery&rsquo;s Anne of Green Gables.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #5

Support critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the final chapters of Mildred D. Taylor&rsquo;s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.&nbsp;

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Discussion Guide #3

Reading and writing: You can't have one without the other! Get familiar with every facet of literature in this workbook. It's packed with literary analysis activities.

Reading Like a Writer, Writing Like a Reader

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

After-Reading Response Choice Board: Informational Text

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