South Dakota ELA 7.W.8.d
The Standard
- 7.W.8
- Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources.
Follow a standard format for citation.
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students put source details in the order required by a citation format, such as MLA. They use the right punctuation and title formatting so a reader can find the source.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can make an MLA Works Cited entry for a book using its title and copyright pages. They can check the entry against a model and fix missing details or misplaced punctuation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list a book's title first even when the author is named. They may leave out the publisher or year, or put a book title in quotation marks instead of italics.
How to Assess It
- Give students these book details: author Maya Chen, title City Trees, publisher Pine Press, year 2024. Ask them to write one MLA Works Cited entry.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs paper strips with a book's author, title, publisher, and year; have them arrange and copy the strips as an MLA entry.
Show two citations for the same book, one missing the publisher; ask students which helps a reader find it and why.
Run a citation fix-it race: teams correct the order, punctuation, and title formatting in three flawed book entries.
Have students choose a school library book and make an MLA entry using its title and copyright pages.
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