Story Analysis Questions

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4 and 5 strengthen reading comprehension, inferential thinking, and character analysis skills through a focused narrative about Jasmine’s science fair project. Learners answer text-dependent questions that require them to examine Jasmine’s personality traits, motivations, emotions, and reactions, as well as interpret how others respond to her work.

Learning Goals

• Character Analysis Using Text Evidence (Grades 4-5)
  Students identify traits and motivations by citing specific actions, dialogue, and details from the passage.
• Making Inferences About Characters
  Learners interpret emotions and reactions that are implied rather than directly stated.
• Interpreting Narrative Themes
  Students consider how effort, creativity, confidence, or perseverance contribute to the story’s meaning.
• Answering Text-Dependent Questions
  The activity reinforces grounding responses in evidence rather than personal opinion.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource
  Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA standards for narrative analysis.
• Deeper-Level Questioning
  Goes beyond recall to examine motivations, comparisons, and audience response.
• Supports Evidence-Based Responses
  Encourages students to explain why they think something using the text.
• Flexible Classroom Use
  Ideal for guided reading, independent practice, assessment, literacy centers, or homework.

This printable worksheet helps students move beyond surface-level comprehension to analyze how character traits, emotions, and reactions shape a story’s message. By supporting interpretations with textual evidence, learners strengthen critical reading, inference skills, and confidence in narrative analysis. It’s a meaningful, no-prep resource that works well in both classroom instruction and homeschool learning.

This worksheet is part of our Asking and Answering Questions Worksheets collection.