Kentucky Reading and Writing C.7.4
The Standard
Use digital resources to create and publish products as well as to interact and collaborate with others; cite sources using MLA or APA format.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Production and Distribution
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students make and publish a digital product, such as a slide deck for the class. They use comments to work with classmates and revise their work. They cite borrowed facts, words, and images in MLA or APA style.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student leaves a comment that suggests a specific change and uses a classmate's comment to improve their own draft. Their published work includes source credits in one consistent MLA or APA format.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think a URL alone counts as a citation, or that an image found online needs no credit. They may split up slides and call it collaboration without reading or revising each other's work.
How to Assess It
- Give pairs a source card with an author, title, date, URL, and one fact. Ask them to post one shared slide with that fact, an MLA or APA citation, and a revision made after a partner's comment.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
In pairs, build a two-slide library guide in Google Slides, cite one photo, and post the guide to the class page.
Compare comments saying 'Looks good' and 'Label the chart axes,' then write which one helps a classmate revise and why.
Give teams four source cards and four citations; have them match each citation to its card and fix one missing author or date.
Make a digital flyer for a school food drive, cite a food bank statistic, and share the flyer with organizers.
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Related Standards
- C.4.4
With some guidance and support from adults, use digital resources to create and publish products as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
- C.6.4
Use digital resources to create and publish products as well as to interact and collaborate with others; cite sources using MLA or APA format
- C.3.4
With guidance and support from adults, use digital resources to create and publish products as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
- C.8.4
The 8th Grade version of this standard.
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