Problem-Solution Matching

This targeted reading comprehension worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen their understanding of narrative structure by identifying problems and matching them to their correct solutions. After reading several short passages, students analyze character challenges and determine how each issue is resolved, using careful reading and attention to cause-and-effect details.

Learning Goals

• Problem & Solution Identification (Grades 4-6): Recognize the main challenge in each passage and how it is addressed.
• Cause-and-Effect Reasoning: Understand how actions lead to outcomes in a story.
• Narrative Structure Awareness: See how problems drive plot development.
• Critical Matching Skills: Distinguish between similar options by focusing on specific text details.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA standards.
• Promotes Careful Reading: Encourages students to analyze details rather than skim.
• Supports Across Genres: Useful for both narrative and informational-style passages with challenges.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for literacy centers, guided reading, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students build stronger comprehension by focusing on how problems and solutions function within texts. By matching each passage to the correct problem-solution pair, learners strengthen analytical thinking, cause-and-effect understanding, and reading accuracy. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with narrative structure, detail analysis, and thoughtful reading.

This worksheet is part of our matching choices reading passages worksheets collection.