TEXT CITATIONS
Text Citation Expectations for 4th and 5th Graders
The ELA CCGPS requires 4th and 5th graders to conduct close reading of text and cite evidence from text to support opinions and inform readers. The specific standards read:
ELACC4W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection and research.
ELACC5W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection and research.
To prepare students for citation expectations in middle school, we have added specificity and rigor to the standard through the expectation that 4th and 5th grade students will learn to utilize a basic citation structure that will serve as a foundation for more complex citation structures in middle and high school. Students will be expected to demonstrate three enduring understandings regarding text citation:
o When quoting from a text or borrowing ideas from a text, credit must be given to the author of the original text.
o When citing a source at the end of an opinion or informational piece, a consistent, basic structure - Author. Title. Date. - is used.
o Author: Last Name, First Name
o Title: Underline Title
o Date: Year
o Example: Holm, Jennifer L. Turtle in Paradise. 2010
o When granting in-text credit, the author-page method of in-text citation is used. (Holm 113)
In setting these expectations we begin to address ownership of intellectual property and the issue of plagiarism on a very simple level. We also hope to begin the internalization of MLA style guidelines so that additional components of the citation may be added as students grow in their ability to integrate multiple sources into an opinion or informational piece.
Students MUST cite as follows for their 25 book reading summaries:
Wright, Betty Ren. The Dollhouse Murders. 1983. 149 pages.
Last name, first name. Title of book. Copyright Date. Number of pages.
** If you are in doubt over the number of pages a book has, please refer to Amazon. If you search a book their you will be able to get the Kindle amount as well as hardback/paperback.
The ELA CCGPS requires 4th and 5th graders to conduct close reading of text and cite evidence from text to support opinions and inform readers. The specific standards read:
ELACC4W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection and research.
ELACC5W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection and research.
To prepare students for citation expectations in middle school, we have added specificity and rigor to the standard through the expectation that 4th and 5th grade students will learn to utilize a basic citation structure that will serve as a foundation for more complex citation structures in middle and high school. Students will be expected to demonstrate three enduring understandings regarding text citation:
o When quoting from a text or borrowing ideas from a text, credit must be given to the author of the original text.
o When citing a source at the end of an opinion or informational piece, a consistent, basic structure - Author. Title. Date. - is used.
o Author: Last Name, First Name
o Title: Underline Title
o Date: Year
o Example: Holm, Jennifer L. Turtle in Paradise. 2010
o When granting in-text credit, the author-page method of in-text citation is used. (Holm 113)
In setting these expectations we begin to address ownership of intellectual property and the issue of plagiarism on a very simple level. We also hope to begin the internalization of MLA style guidelines so that additional components of the citation may be added as students grow in their ability to integrate multiple sources into an opinion or informational piece.
Students MUST cite as follows for their 25 book reading summaries:
Wright, Betty Ren. The Dollhouse Murders. 1983. 149 pages.
Last name, first name. Title of book. Copyright Date. Number of pages.
** If you are in doubt over the number of pages a book has, please refer to Amazon. If you search a book their you will be able to get the Kindle amount as well as hardback/paperback.