English Language Arts and Reading.2.13.F

The student is expected to

cite sources appropriately; and

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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes.

Ask students to give credit to the source of gathered information. Citing sources can be as simple as stating the name of the source and who wrote it. If students are writing the report instead of orally presenting it, they need to be able to provide the source in simple written citations.

Example:

Name of Author. Title of Book. Page Number
Gail Gibbons  Hurricanes. Page 3


The following is an example of a rubric that can be used to assess this SE:

  1. The student is unable to cite sources.
  2. The student is able to state the type of source the information came from but not name it (g., “I got it from a book”).
  3. The student is able to state the title of the source used, but not the author.
  4. The student is able to state or write the name of the source the information came from, including author, title, and page number.
Citing sources is the process of acknowledging a person/author or work as a source of information in order to provide an example/proof and/or to establish authority and credibility. In second grade, this may involve students naming the author, title, and page number where they got the information.