Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Author’s Purpose

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Author’s Purpose worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text. Students will write their answer in the space provided, citing relevant evidence and details from the text in their response. This middle grades worksheet allows students voice and choice in how they respond to their reading, featuring two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining an author’s purpose or point of view.