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Mood from the Words is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on working out what an illustration would need to convey, aligned to Common Core standard RL.3.7. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Mood from the Words

RL.3.7

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Wrong Bus

Halim was two stops past the school before he looked up. The bus was going the other way. He had got on at the same shelter, in the same rain, and never checked the number. His stomach dropped. He thought about crying and decided against it, because it would not help. He read the route map above the window. He worked out that the 41 came back the same way. He rang the bell, got off, crossed at the lights, and waited eleven minutes for the 41. He was twenty minutes late. Mrs Achebe asked what happened. "I got the wrong bus," said Halim, "and then I got the right one."

  1. 1. How does the rain matter to the story?
  2. 2. What would an illustration of the turning point show?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Last Letter

Every Thursday for six years, Mr Ellis posted a letter to his sister in Canada. Then the letters started coming back. Address unknown. He kept writing them anyway. He put them in a shoebox instead of the postbox. When his neighbour Ada asked why, he said, "Because the day I stop writing is the day she is really gone." Ada went home and looked up the town on a map. It took her three weeks and eleven phone calls to find the new address. The shoebox held ninety-two letters. They posted them all on the same day.

  1. 1. Where is Mr Ellis's sister?
  2. 2. What would an illustration of the end show, and what mood would it create?

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Answer key — Mood from the Words

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It is why he got on without checking — the same shelter, the same rain, head down. 2. Halim standing on the moving bus, reading the route map above the window.
  2. 2.1. In Canada, at a town whose address had changed. 2. Mr Ellis and Ada posting a shoebox full of letters — hopeful, after a long wait.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.3.7 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.