Mystery in the Art Room: Creating Story Settings for Grade 4 

This Grade 4 worksheet helps students understand how to create strong and engaging story settings in narrative writing. Based on the story “The Mysterious Art Room,” learners explore how time, place, weather, mood, and details work together to make a story interesting and meaningful. 

Through comprehension questions, adjective-building tasks, multiple choice questions, fill-in-the-blanks, and guided paragraph writing, students learn how to identify and describe settings clearly. The worksheet encourages children to notice sensory details like what characters see, hear, and feel—helping them move beyond simple storytelling into vivid, descriptive writing. 

Why Creating Settings Matters in Narrative Writing? 

Understanding story settings is important because: 
1. The setting tells readers when and where a story happens. 
2. It creates mood and builds suspense or excitement. 
3. It helps readers imagine the story more clearly. 
4. It makes writing richer by adding sensory details and description. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

This Grade 4 worksheet includes five engaging activities to build setting-writing skills: 

🧠 Exercise 1 – Answer the Questions 
Students answer comprehension questions about the setting of “The Mysterious Art Room,” identifying the place, time, mood, and how the setting makes the story interesting. 

✏️ Exercise 2 – Write Three Describing Words 
Students write adjectives for different parts of the setting such as the classroom, the weather, and the painting. This strengthens vocabulary and descriptive writing skills. 

📋 Exercise 3 – Multiple Choice Questions 
Students choose the correct answers based on the story details, reinforcing understanding of the setting and mood. 

📝 Exercise 4 – Fill in the Blanks 
Using a word bank (time, place, weather, mood, details, characters), students complete sentences about story settings, helping them understand key narrative terms. 

🌧️ Exercise 5 – Paragraph Writing with Sensory Details 
Students write their own short paragraph describing a school setting using sensory words (what they see, hear, and feel). This encourages creative application of the concept. 

ANSWER KEY (For Parents & Educators) 

Exercise 1 – Answer the Questions 
1. The story takes place in the art room at Maplewood School. 
2. The quiet room, rain tapping on the windows, and flickering lights create a mysterious mood. 
3. The story happens on a rainy afternoon. 
4. The setting makes the story interesting by building suspense when the lights flicker and a glowing painting is discovered. 

Exercise 2 – Describing Words 
The classroom – quiet, empty, dim 
The weather – rainy, cloudy, gloomy 
The painting – old, shimmering, mysterious 
(Answers may vary.) 

Exercise 3 – Multiple Choice 
1. b) In the art room 
2. a) Rainy 
3. b) A lost painting 
4. c) Mysterious 

Exercise 4 – Fill in the Blanks 
1. time, place 
2. details 
3. mood 
4. weather 
5. characters 

Exercise 5 – Sample Paragraph 
The classroom was silent and slightly dark as the rain tapped against the windows. I could hear the soft humming of the lights and the distant thunder outside. The cool breeze from the open window made me feel calm but curious. The room felt mysterious and full of secrets waiting to be discovered. 
(Answers may vary.) 

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