Virginia SOL 4.R.1.F
The Standard
Avoid plagiarism and give proper credit by providing citations whenever using another person’s media, facts, ideas, graphics, music, and direct quotations.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students mark which facts, words, images, and ideas came from a source. They name the creator or source in a simple citation. They use quotation marks for exact words.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a book or website, a student can label copied words and paraphrased ideas. The student adds quotation marks when needed and records enough information to show where the material came from.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think changing a few words makes an idea their own. They often cite direct quotes but omit citations for paraphrases, images, music, or facts. They may list a website address without naming the author or page.
How to Assess It
- Give students a source card with one fact and one quotation. Ask them to write two sentences using both, then add quotation marks and source credit where needed.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed source cards, sticky notes, and a sample slide; have them tag each borrowed fact, idea, image, and quotation.
Ask, “When does borrowing become stealing?” Students write a claim and support it with examples involving facts, images, music, and quotations.
Play Citation Detective: teams inspect sample slides, earn points for finding missing credit, and repair each citation.
Have students add a credits slide to a mock class news report using one photograph, one fact, and one music clip.
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Related Standards
- 7.R.1.F
Give credit for information quoted or paraphrased, using standard citations (e.g., author, article title and webpage, and publication date).
- 3.R.1.E
Avoid plagiarism, giving credit to sources of information (title and author when available).
- 5.R.1.F
The 5th Grade version of this standard.
- 6.R.1.F
Give credit for information quoted or paraphrased using standard citations (e.g., author, article title, webpage, and publication date).
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