4th - 8th Grade Fiction Problem and Solution Resources

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.