Problem&

Solution

in stories and books.

Story elements

by Carolyn Wilhelm

Illustrations by Siri Wilhelm

Attachments:

Sample class chart using Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game

Problem Solution Bookmarks, art by Siri Wilhelm

Problem - Solution Student Assessment Rubric

What in the world are we learning about today?

PROBLEM SOLUTIONand

Did you ever have a problem? Did you know stories have problems, too? That is what makes them

interesting.

When Reading, you will place this bookmark in your book where the story problem is found.

Place this bookmark on the page in your book where the story solution is found.

You will have two bookmarks to place in your story.

Passage from Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax:

Is this a problem or a solution?

He snapped, “I’m the Lorax who speaks for the trees which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please. But I’m also in charge of the Brown Bar-ba-loots who played in the shade in their Bar-ba-loots suits and happily lived, eating Truffula Fruits.

“Now . . . thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground, there’s not enough Truffula Fruit to go ’round. And my poor Bar-ba-loots are all getting the crummies because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies!

From Six by Seuss: A Treasury of Dr. Seuss Classics (Random House, 1991), p. 319

Problem

Solution

The correct answer will move when clicked:

Knuffle Bunny by Mo Williams:

Is this a problem or a solution?

Mom immediately sees that "Knuffle Bunny" is missing and so it's back to the Laundromat they go. After several tries, dad finds the toy among the wet laundry.

Problem

Solution

The correct answer will fade when clicked:

Class example:Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game

by David a. Adler

What we noticed about the writing of the problem and solution in this story:

Robert's guess was too amazing. Everyone else guessed a round number, and Robert's was the only not rounded off number.

Cam said to Robert that he wrote his exact guess after Mrs. Bell told the number and revealed clues.

Class discussion pages:

Characters

When andWhere

Problem

Reasons for the Problem

Possible Solutions

My friend and I!

At school at midnight!

We had no food and the phones were dead. There was no electricity.

A tornado had hit the school and we were locked in with automatic locks.

We could signal with mirrors out of the window in the moonlight!

Cell phones don't work well in the school.

Can we figure out this story?Move the sentences to the right story elements:

PBS online stories to considerproblem and solution

Online links :

Problem Solution Online lesson: setting, plot, and theme

Setting, Plot, or Theme

The Civil War Should he becomethe first president?

Civil Rights in the 1960's

Did these people have problems to solve?Match the person with the problem.

Lincoln Washington

MLK

Discussion:

Attachments

Problem Solution Bookmarks.pdf

Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game.pdf

ProblemSolutionStudentAssessmentRubric.pdf