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.

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 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.

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

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.

Read clues and use problem-solving skills to figure out which child is dressed up in which Halloween costume.

The forecast is sunny and pleasant with this summer word scramble! Your child will flex their problem solving skills to unscramble each word.

Happy 4th of July everyone! Celebrate this year's Independence Day with a fun word search for you and your child.

In this playful, fireworks-themed worksheet, children will will trace six vocabulary words, then shade each each pair of rhyming words with the same color.

It's time for a fun word challenge! This word scramble will help your child build spelling skills as well as basic problem-solving skills.

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

Encourage creativity with this writing choice board for third, fourth, and fifth graders!

Celebrate Earth Day with this fun word puzzle for third, fourth, and fifth graders!

Third, fourth, and fifth graders will love this Valentine’s Day-themed word scramble! 

Introduce third, fourth, and fifth graders to hink pink riddles with this fair-themed worksheet!

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.