Let's Solve It! Step-by-Step Problem Solving with Kids, Storybook 1

Storybooks for Teaching Problem Solving

Illustrated stories are a mainstay for young children and provide both visual and narrative clues for basic problem-solving development. Storybooks enhance understanding of basic concepts, encourage engagement, and build critical thinking skills. They are also the foundation for building literacy skills, inferencing, and expose learners to perspective taking, specifically thoughts and feelings, through the words and actions of the story characters.

Let's Solve It! Step-by-Step Problem Solving with Kids, Storybook, is part of a series that contains a second storybook and a teaching guide. (The ebooks are sold separately. The print books are sold only as a set.)

Storybook 1 includes ten story pairs, which can be introduced in any order. Each story pair begins with a Let’s Solve It! version, color-coded in orange, where characters encounter an everyday problem (or dilemma). That story is immediately followed by the We Solved It! version of the same story, color-coded in blue, where the same character figures out how to avoid, or even solve, the problem in order to meet their own and/or the group’s social goals. Students can compare two versions of the same scenario to see how different choices and perspectives can play out.

STORYBOOK 1

Story 1: Spelling Lesson
Story 2: Homework
Story 3: Partner Work
Story 4: Family Dinner
Story 5: Art Class
Story 6: Playing a Game
Story 7: Story Time
Story 8: Shopping with Mom
Story 9: Show and Tell
Story 10: Visiting the Doctor’s Office

To facilitate teaching, a Let's Solve It! Teaching Guide (available as a separate ebook) includes corresponding Let's Solve It! (LSI) and We Solved It! (WSI) fully downloadable problem-solving templates to help guide discussions.

An additional 10 story pairs (available as a separate ebook) can be found in Let's Solve It! Step-by-Step Problem Solving with Kids, Storybook 2.