What's the most exciting part of a story? The character's problem or challenge! Use this power point to introduce your students to and help them to differentiate between a story problem or a challenge. This power point includes:
1. Introduction to the definitions of a problem or a challenge.
2. A practice game to help students differentiate between and generate original problems or challenges a character or characters could face.
3. An extenstion where students practice creating their own problems or challenges for four different story settings.

This power point can be use as a reference during guided reading and or read alouds of fictional texts or writer's workshop to help with narrative writing.