3rd - 7th Grade Fiction Problem and Solution Resources

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

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

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

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

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

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

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

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

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