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

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

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

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

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: Problem and Solution Summaries.

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.

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 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 resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

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

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