Problem and Solution, Sports Day Stories

Read the longer story together and ask what went wrong and how it got fixed. Let your child answer the mini stories alone. Any sensible new solution counts; the answer key gives samples.

Find the problem and solution in 3 sports day stories and think of a new solution. The problem is what goes wrong in a story. The solution is how the characters fix it. The directions on the page read: Read the story. Write its problem and solution. Then, write a different way to solve the problem. On page 2: Read each short story. Then, write its problem and its solution on the lines. The answer key shows every answer.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade story elements, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with problem and solution. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

The problem is what goes wrong for the characters, and the solution is how they fix it. In one story, nobody stops at a lemonade stand until the children make a giant sign.

It shows that your child understood the problem, not just the ending. Any sensible fix counts, and the answer key gives a sample.

The main story on each sheet is about 80 to 100 words, and the other two are mini stories, so the reading stays quick and the focus stays on the problem and solution.

Yes. All six sheets have an answer key, with sample answers for the parts children write in their own words.

2nd graders name the characters, setting, problem and solution, and tell the main events from the beginning, middle and end. They also describe how characters respond to what happens (RL.2.3).

The 2nd grade map adds three events in order, beginning, middle and end, and children write their answers on lines instead of a word or a drawing in a box.

Thinking of another way to fix a problem shows they understood what went wrong, and it builds the planning they will use in their own stories. Any sensible solution counts.