Mood and Tone

This focused poetry analysis worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen their ability to identify tone, interpret mood, and analyze word choice within a nature-themed poem. By closely examining diction and highlighting emotionally charged words or phrases, students learn how poets create feeling and meaning through language and how tone shapes the reader’s experience.

Learning Goals

• Identifying Tone and Mood (Grades 4-6): Recognize the poet’s attitude (tone) and the emotional atmosphere (mood) of the poem.
• Using Textual Evidence: Highlight and analyze specific words or phrases that reveal tone.
• Word Choice & Interpretation: Explain how diction influences how the poem feels to the reader.
• Tracking Tone Shifts: Notice and explain changes in tone, if they occur, across the poem.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary ELA poetry standards.
• Close Reading Practice: Encourages students to slow down and examine language carefully.
• Builds Subtle Interpretation Skills: Helps learners move beyond literal meaning to emotional nuance.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for poetry units, reading journals, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet supports deeper poetry comprehension by guiding students to connect word choice with emotional impact. By identifying tone, explaining mood, and supporting ideas with evidence, learners strengthen critical thinking, interpretive reading, and written explanation skills. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with tone, mood, and thoughtful analysis of poetic language.

This worksheet is part of our poetry comprehension worksheets collection.