Georgia 5.L.GC.1.54
The Standard
Mechanics: Use conventional capitalization, quotation marks, commas, end punctuation, and parentheses (citations) when incorporating textual evidence. (Introduce)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students weave a quoted or paraphrased detail into their own sentence. They punctuate the sentence correctly and place source information in parentheses.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students introduce evidence with their own words and copy direct quotes accurately. They use correct capitalization, commas, quotation marks, parentheses, and final punctuation without changing the source’s meaning.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may put quotation marks around a paraphrase or leave them off an exact quote. They may place the final period before the citation, omit commas after signal phrases, or capitalize quoted words incorrectly.
How to Assess It
- Give students this fact from page 4 of “River Rescue”: “The volunteers carried every turtle to higher ground.” Ask them to cite it in a complete sentence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Build a sentence from color-coded quote, signal phrase, and citation strips, then place punctuation cards where they belong.
Display two versions of a cited sentence and ask partners to explain which punctuation choices make the evidence clear.
Play Citation Fix-It: teams correct capitalization, quotation marks, commas, parentheses, and periods in five evidence sentences.
Annotate a news article paragraph, then write a fact-check sentence quoting one claim and naming its source in parentheses.
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