Analyze Mood in Narrative Writing with Your Students

Mood is the emotional atmosphere that an author creates in a story, shaping how readers feel as they engage with the text. It’s a rather abstract idea, which makes it all the more important to explicitly teach the concept to students using age-appropriate texts.

This resource makes it easy to teach your students about mood in narrative writing. It includes four narrative passages accompanied by targeted questions to support your students in analyzing the text’s mood. Students will identify the mood, explore the author’s word choices, and reflect on how descriptive language influences tone and feeling.

The passages featured in this resource are:

1. The Owl’s Warning
2. The Lantern in the Window
3. Race Against the Storm
4. The Festival of Lights

This resource downloads as a black-and-white PDF or editable Google Slides file. Answers are also included in the download to make grading quick and easy.

Building Literacy Skills Through Narrative Mood Analysis

This versatile resource enables your students to apply various key literacy skills, helping them develop into critical and thoughtful readers. Some of these include:

• Identifying the mood in a variety of texts.
• Analyzing the language used to create mood.
• Exploring author techniques for building atmosphere.
• Justifying ideas using textual evidence.

These skills not only strengthen comprehension but also prepare students for more advanced writing tasks, fostering creativity and confidence in their storytelling abilities.

Instantly Download These Narrative Mood Worksheets

Getting started with this resource is quick and easy! Use the Download button above to access the full set of passages, accompanying questions and associated answer pages.

As this resource contains answer pages, we recommend printing one copy of the entire file, then selecting and removing the pages you wish to photocopy for the students.

This resource was created by Kaylyn Chupp, a teacher in Florida and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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