Search Reading Literature Identifying Problems and Solutions in Reading Educational Resources

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 

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

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

Use an open-ended graphic organizer to help your students identify the problem and solution in three stories.

Help students reflect on chapters 1–4 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

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.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 19–25 of Anne of Green Gables.

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

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!