Problem and solution text structure explains difficult situations and resolutions. Let’s take a look at how to teach kids to identify and write in this format.

Here is a simple worksheet on problem and solution if your students need more practice. Here is a more complex set of text structure worksheets if your students are ready to advance.

Learn what problem and solution in text structure means. Identify examples of problem and solution signal words, and discover the benefits of this writing technique.

Use this free resource to help your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students better understand the problem and solution nonfiction text structure.

For more on text structure mapping, read the Iowa Reading Research Center blog post “Text Structure Mapping: A Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension of Informational Texts" by Dr. Leah

In this section you’ll learn about the 5 most common text structures and how to help students learn to identify and use text structures in their reading and writing.

This post features a video lesson teaching students about the problem-solution text structure. The lesson helps students identify problems and solutions in various texts, enhancing their …

The problem-solution structure helps writers systematically present issues and their potential remedies, making arguments clearer and more persuasive. This structure often includes a clear thesis …

Jun 6, 2025 · The problem and solution text structure presents a problem and then offers a solution to that problem, helping readers understand how a particular issue can be resolved. This structure is a …

Try organizing some information into a problem-solution text structure. Drag each of these sentences into a structure that introduces or describes a problem, describes the solutions that were tried, and …