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Grade 5 Reading & Writing · World 9: Research Base · Level 78
Parenthetical Citations
Credit a source in parentheses, with the right punctuation around evidence.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 78
- A citation credits your source right in your sentence, using parentheses.
- Put the author's last name, then the page number, with no comma between them.
- The quotation marks come first, then the parentheses, then the period at the very end.
- Cite ideas you put in your own words too. The idea still came from someone else.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 5.T.RA.2.c — Use basic parenthetical citations to credit the source used. (C)
- 5.L.GC.1.54 — Mechanics: Use conventional capitalization, quotation marks, commas, end punctuation, and parentheses (citations) when incorporating textual evidence. (Introduce)