Bringing Places to Life: Creating Realistic Settings for Grade 5 

This Grade 5 worksheet on Realistic Settings (Narrative Writing) helps students understand how to make story locations feel authentic, detailed, and believable. Based on the engaging story “The Robotics Challenge,” learners explore how sensory details, mood, time, and activity combine to create a vivid and realistic environment. 

Through creative paragraph writing, sentence rearranging, sensory description tasks, prompt-based writing, and story continuation, students learn how to describe places in a way that makes readers feel present inside the scene. The worksheet strengthens descriptive writing skills while building awareness of how setting influences mood and action. 

Why Realistic Settings Matter in Narrative Writing? 

Developing realistic settings helps students: 
1. Create believable story worlds grounded in detail. 
2. Use sensory language (sight, sound, smell, touch) effectively. 
3. Establish mood and atmosphere clearly. 
4. Connect events to time and place logically. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

🧠 Exercise 1 – Create Your Own Story Setting 
Students imagine a special school event (science fair, art exhibition, robotics competition) and describe the setting using sensory details and emotions. 

✏️ Exercise 2 – Rearrange Sentences 
Students organize sentences into a logical order to build a coherent and realistic setting for an art exhibition. 

🎨 Exercise 3 – Draw and Describe 
Students draw their favorite classroom or school event setting and write 5–6 sensory-rich sentences describing it. 

📋 Exercise 4 – Prompt-Based Setting Description 
Students choose one scenario (sports day morning, busy art room, rainy library afternoon) and describe the realistic setting focusing on time, place, mood, and activity. 

💻 Exercise 5 – Continue the Story Starter 
Students continue the computer lab story by expanding on the setting and describing what makes it feel real. 

ANSWER KEY (For Parents & Educators) 

Exercise 1 – Sample Paragraph 

The science fair took place in our brightly decorated school hall. Posters and models covered long tables, and colorful charts hung on the walls. I could hear excited chatter and the occasional buzz of small machines running. The smell of glue and fresh chart paper filled the air. Everyone looked nervous but proud as they explained their projects to the judges. 
(Answers may vary.) 

Exercise 2 – Correct Order 

Correct sequence: 
3. It was the first day of the school’s art exhibition. 
5. Bright sunlight streamed through the windows onto the long rows of art tables. 
1. The room smelled faintly of glue and paint as students worked on colorful posters. 
2. The art teacher smiled as she helped a group struggling with their clay models. 
4. Parents and visitors walked around admiring the creative displays. 

Exercise 3 – Sample Description 

My favorite event is the annual book fair in our classroom. The tables are stacked with colorful storybooks and shiny new covers. I can hear pages flipping and quiet whispers as students discuss their favorite titles. The smell of fresh paper fills the room. The atmosphere feels calm, exciting, and full of curiosity. 
(Answers may vary.) 

Exercise 4 – Sample Paragraph (Prompt C: Rainy Afternoon in the School Library) 

It was a quiet rainy afternoon in the school library. Raindrops tapped gently against the large glass windows. Rows of books stood neatly on tall shelves, and the soft yellow lights created a warm glow. Students sat quietly at wooden tables, flipping pages and taking notes. The mood felt peaceful and focused, as if the world outside had slowed down. 
(Answers may vary.) 

Exercise 5 – Sample Continuation 

When I entered the computer lab, I could already hear the soft hum of machines and the tapping of keys. Rows of monitors glowed brightly in the dim room. My classmates sat in neat lines, concentrating on their screens. The air felt slightly cool from the air conditioner, and the faint smell of plastic keyboards filled the space. Our teacher walked between the rows, giving instructions in a calm voice. The lab felt busy, organized, and full of quiet energy. 
(Answers may vary.) 

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