What's Missing? Citing Sources

What is a direct quote?

• Something you think heard someone say

• Writing a fact in your own words

• Using a piece of information from the text without changing any of the words

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Why would you want to use a direct quote in your writing?

• As evidence to answer a question about the text

• To emphasize an important fact to your reader

• It's easier than thinking of your own information

• As evidence to answer a question about the text OR to emphasize an important fact to the reader

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What two pieces of information do you need to include when you cite a direct quote?

• title and page number

• title and author

• quotation marks and parentheses

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Quotations marks go around the...

• direct quote

• author's name

• the book title

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What's missing from this quote?

In the book Sea Turtles by Kerly Loja, it says that Sea turtles have a salt gland to rid their bodies of excess salt from the ocean.

• quotation marks

• parentheses

• author

• title

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What's missing from this quote?

In the book by Bobbie Kalman it says, "There are only 3,000 to 5,000 Komodo dragons left on Earth."

• quotation marks

• author

• title

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What's missing from this direct quote?

In the book exploring Mars it says, "In 2015, scientists discovered flowing water on Mars."

• quotation marks

• title

• author

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What's missing from this direct quote?

"Velociraptor fossils have only been found in Mongolia."

• quotation marks

• author and title

• author

• title

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What's missing from this direct quote?

According to Anna Claybourne who wrote the book Humpback Whales, Whales are sea creatures, but they developed from land mammals.

• author

• title

• author and title

• quotation marks

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What's missing from this quote?

Louise and Richard Spilsbury said that "More than half the world's volcanoes are found around the edges of the Pacific Ocean where plates meet."

• author

• title

• quotation marks

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9