Emotion Detective

Students become “Emotion Detectives” as they analyze short narrative cases to infer how characters feel based on body language, dialogue, and setting clues. Instead of naming emotions directly, learners write a descriptive paragraph for each case that shows the feeling through sensory and contextual details. This worksheet builds inference skills, narrative awareness, and descriptive precision while encouraging empathy and emotional literacy.

Curriculum Skills Explored

English Language Arts – Reading Inference and Textual Evidence

English Language Arts – Narrative Description and Tone

English Language Arts – Show, Don’t Tell Technique

Social-Emotional Learning – Empathy and Emotional Awareness

This worksheet is part of our Describing Emotions collection.