Virginia SOL 5.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 · Evaluation and Synthesis of Information
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify words, facts, ideas, images, graphics, and music taken from a source. They give credit when quoting, paraphrasing, or using media created by someone else.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students clearly separate their own thinking from borrowed words and ideas. They use quotation marks for exact words and provide enough source information for a reader to find the original.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think changing a few words makes an idea their own. They may cite quotations but omit credit for paraphrased facts, images, music, or graphics.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short source and a two-sentence response using one fact from it. Ask them to add a source citation and mark borrowed wording with quotation marks.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs source cards, sample sentences, and citation labels to match, then have them fix any missing quotation marks or source details.
Ask students to explain in writing why credit is needed for a borrowed image, even when the image is free online.
Play Citation Detective with short passages, awarding points for spotting uncited facts, weak paraphrases, missing quotation marks, and incomplete source information.
Have students create a one-slide weather report using a map, one fact, and one image, with credit placed beside each borrowed item.
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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).
- 4.R.1.F
The 4th 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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