Problem and Solution Anchor Chart
- Grades
- Preschool–Junior Kindergarten, Grades 1–3
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Reading, ELA
- Topic
- Problem, Solution
- Resource types
- Anchor Charts
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
This four-page PDF contains three problem-and-solution charts and a creator page. The set includes a completed reference, a version with key prompt words omitted and sentence frames for explaining a story’s problem and solution.
Use the charts with a story you select, on a bulletin board or in reading notebooks.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify what a character needs or what goes wrong in a story
Explain how or when the identified problem is solved
Use complete oral frames to state a problem-and-solution relationship
Recall key prompt words on the fill-in chart
Teaching tips
Name the character and need before deciding which event counts as the central problem.
Complete the solution only after locating the story event that changes or resolves the difficulty.
Use the oral frames on page 3 to rehearse a complete response before writing.
Return to the fill-in chart after modelling the completed version to check the prompt sequence.
Skills covered
Narrative structure — a character's problem is linked with its resolution.
Cause-and-effect reasoning — learners explain how an event solves the stated difficulty.
Oral response construction — paired sentence frames support complete problem and solution statements.
Prompt recall — missing words reconstruct the chart's guiding questions.
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