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.
Set 8 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 24 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Mood from the Words
RL.3.7
NameDate
Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.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. Where is Mr Ellis's sister?
2. What would an illustration of the end show, and what mood would it create?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Museum Key (a scene from a play)
SCENE TWO. The museum store room. Night. Boxes everywhere. A single desk lamp.
PRIYA: (whispering) It was here on Tuesday. On this shelf.
JON: You are sure it was this shelf?
PRIYA: I dusted it. I am sure.
JON: (lifting a lid) Then somebody moved it after Tuesday.
PRIYA: Or before Tuesday, and I dusted the empty space.
(Pause. JON puts the lid down slowly.)
JON: That is worse.
PRIYA: I know.
1. What would a set design for this scene need to show?
2. How does the setting build the mood?
LessonPrint · RL.3.7 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Mood from the Words
Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. 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.
2.1. A store room stacked with boxes, lit by one desk lamp, with a shelf Priya can point at. 2. Night, boxes everywhere and one desk lamp make it tense and uncertain.
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.3.7 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.