Virginia SOL 6.R.1.F
The Standard
Give credit for information quoted or paraphrased using standard citations (e.g., author, article title, webpage, and publication date).
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify the source of facts, ideas, and exact words they use. They add a consistent citation with available details such as author, title, website, and date.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student marks exact wording with quotation marks and cites it. The student also cites paraphrased ideas, records source details accurately, and matches each citation to the correct source.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often cite direct quotes but not paraphrases, or think changing a few words makes an idea their own. They may list only a URL, omit available source details, or attach a citation to the wrong sentence. Some confuse quotation marks with source credit.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short source card and two borrowed sentences, one quoted and one paraphrased. Ask them to add quotation marks where needed and write a citation for each.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed source cards and claim strips, then have them match each borrowed idea to its source and build a complete citation.
Show three versions of a cited sentence and ask students to write which version gives enough credit and why.
Run a citation repair relay where teams fix missing quotation marks, authors, titles, dates, and source links on task cards.
Have students cite facts used in a mock school newsletter, using the original webpage or article as their source.
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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
Avoid plagiarism and give proper credit by providing citations whenever using another person’s media, facts, ideas, graphics, music, and direct quotations.
- 5.R.1.F
Avoid plagiarism and give proper credit by providing citations whenever using another person’s media, facts, ideas, graphics, music, and direct quotations.
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