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

With these short fiction passages, your students will identify the problems and solutions.

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

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.

Your students will read text to identify the problem, attempt to solve the problem and solution in the story.

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

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Help your students find the problem and solution by asking the “5Ws + H” questions with this helpful reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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

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.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. Challenge your readers by having them fill in this graphic organizer with their story’s setting, characters, problem, and solution.

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.

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

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

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

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

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

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

Help your students summarize the problem and the solution of a story using selected conjunction words and a paragraph frame.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Problem and Solution Practice.