Tone Labeling

Students read short excerpts and use clues from pacing, word choice, and descriptive detail to choose the correct tone from a provided set: excited, calm, worried, grumpy, or playful. Each excerpt contains emotional cues that students must interpret to identify the appropriate tone. This helps students practice analyzing how authors convey feelings indirectly through action and sensory detail. The worksheet enhances inferential comprehension and strengthens students’ awareness of descriptive signals in narrative writing. Labeling tones also builds confidence in evaluating the emotional context of written text.

Curriculum Matched Skills

English Language Arts – Craft and Structure: Tone Identification

English Language Arts – Reading Comprehension: Inferential Analysis

English Language Arts – Descriptive Language Interpretation

English Language Arts – Narrative Analysis Skills

This worksheet is part of our Narrative Voice and Tone Worksheets collection.