Problem and Solution Anchor Chart

Help students identify a character’s problem and explain how it is solved. Completed and fill-in charts pair with sentence frames for talking about the story.
Grades
Preschool–Pre-K, Grades 1–3
Pages
4
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Apr 05, 2022

Subject
ELA
Topic
Problem, Solution
Resource types
Posters, Anchor Charts
Preparation
Print ready

Product description

From the author

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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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify what a character needs or what goes wrong in a story

  • 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.

Skills covered

  • Narrative structure — a character's problem is linked with its resolution.

  • 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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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Problem

  • Solution

  • Character needs

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