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1st - 7th Grade Common Core Problem and Solution Educational Resources

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

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After-Reading Response Choice Board: Informational Text

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.

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Reading Like a Writer, Writing Like a Reader

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

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Reading Comprehension: Problem and Solution 1

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #1

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

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

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Practice with Problem & Solution

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

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Finding the Problem and the Solution with Question Words

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Reading Comprehension: Problem and Solution 2

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #2

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Post-Reading Questions

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #3

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1&ndash;6 of Rick Riordan&rsquo;s The Lightning Thief.&nbsp;

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Novel Study: The Lightning Thief: Discussion Guide #1 

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

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Explain the Problem

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Post-Reading Response Prompts

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.

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Story Rollercoaster

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

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Conflict in Literature

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapters 1&ndash;8&nbsp;of Linda Sue Park&rsquo;s A Long Walk to Water.

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Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Discussion Guide #1

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part&nbsp;of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #5

Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne&rsquo;s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #3 

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #1 

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #3

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

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Novel Discussion Guide for Teachers

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

Kids will read a classic Japanese folktale and then answer questions about the the problem, solution, and ending in this fun reading comprehension activity.

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Momotaro's Ending

Use these engaging discussion prompts to support literacy development as students read the next set of entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #2 

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.

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A Motivated Problem Solver

After reading Linda Sue Park&#39;s novel A Long Walk to Water, students demonstrate their understanding of the novel with these post-reading response prompts.

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Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Post-Reading Response Prompts

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

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Elements of a Story: Circle Chart

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first chapters of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

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