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Mood and Tone Worksheets
Understanding these concepts through worksheets is vital for readers across all grades to develop skills to identify these key elements of literature. Teachers can design, download, and print free customizable tone and mood template organizers to guide students to determine the writer's attitude (tone) and feeling created in the reader (mood) as they analyze descriptions and passages.
What is a Mood and Tone Worksheet?
It is an educational printable handout with excerpts from novels, poems, articles, and short stories for the class to explore. After closely reading the passages, kids answer comprehension questions on the author's tone and mood in the novel or poem. They describe the differences and similarities between the two, and provide text evidence from the passage to defend their analysis.
Some identifying tone and mood worksheets provide a bank of tone and mood words or phrases like “somber,” “critical,” “playful” for students to reference. Building vocabulary of emotive words aids discussion of the subtle objectives and feelings conveyed in texts. Teachers can assess if children understand the oftentimes confusing distinction between the two concepts.
How Can Teachers Use Tone and Mood Worksheets Free?
There are many ways for teachers to incorporate these activities to teach this concept in the ELA classroom:
- Introduce the Concept of Mood vs. Tone: Use a worksheet as an identifying tone and mood exercise to teach kids this key reading comprehension skill. Go through a short story together as a class to model analyzing word choices to determine tone and mood.
- Independent Practice: Provide learners with a mood worksheet for individual practice identifying emotive elements in passages across fiction and non-fiction.
- Warm-Up Activity: Have the class complete a quick mood worksheets handout by reading short passages and answering questions to get class started.
- Assessment Tool: Create vocabulary tests or reading quizzes using excerpts to gauge student comprehension of these concepts over time.
Why Use These Worksheets?
Incorporating these tone and mood activities worksheets in the classroom provides many benefits:
- Teachers can utilize a worksheet to enhance students' reading analysis skills by guiding them to identify emotive elements and implied meanings in texts.
- Expand vocabulary of certain words to precisely describe author's attitude and reader's feelings.
- Enable rich discussion and deeper evaluation of excerpts from different perspectives.
- By using an identifying tone and mood worksheet, it will further enhance students' skills in pinpointing the author's attitude and emotions created in the reader throughout passages they analyze.
- Encourage close reading by requiring text evidence to support identification of tone and mood.
- Appeal to various learning styles with mood tone worksheets to analyze.
Additional Resources
Check out these other useful resources from Storyboard That:
- Non-Fiction Text Structure Worksheets
- Elements of a Story Worksheet
- Setting Worksheets
- Story Map Template
- Book Cover Templates
- Inferencing Worksheets
How to Make a Tone and Mood Worksheet
Choose One of the Premade Templates
We have lots of templates to choose from. Take a look at our example for inspiration!
Click on “Copy Template”
Once you do this, you will be directed to the storyboard creator.
Give Your Worksheet a Name!
Be sure to call it something related to the topic so that you can easily find it in the future.
Edit Your Worksheet
This is where you will include directions, specific images, and make any aesthetic changes that you would like. The options are endless!
Click "Save and Exit"
When you are finished, click this button in the lower right hand corner to exit your storyboard.
Next Steps
From here you can print, download as a PDF, attach it to an assignment and use it digitally, and more!
Happy Creating!
Frequently Asked Questions about Tone and Mood Worksheets
What are some tips for using tone and mood worksheets?
When utilizing these worksheets in class, it can be helpful to start with a passage analysis together, modeling how to identify emotive elements. Then have students work independently or in small groups, encouraging discussion. Finally, bring the class back together to share their analyses.
Where can I find quality free tone and mood worksheets?
Storyboard That provides various free printable blank tone and mood worksheet templates. Teachers can customize these materials by adding their own passage examples relevant to what students are currently reading.
What if students struggle to comprehend the difference between mood and tone?
Explain that tone refers specifically to the writer's attitude, while mood describes the feeling created in the reader. Providing specific words like “somber,” “nostalgic,” “critical,” etc. also helps students distinguish between these concepts.
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