4th Grade Common Core Problem and Solution Resources

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

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

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: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

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.

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