Citing Text Evidence BUNDLE & Citing Evidence Game - Distance Learning

Do your students struggle to seamlessly incorporate text evidence within their writing? This completely digital and printable unit will teach your students MLA 8 citations + critical lessons that teach students how to incorporate/embed these quotations within paragraphs. The Citing Evidence Game will engage students in fun but meaningful practice with crafting parenthetical citations and embedding quotations. This is a digital and printable resource. It can be used for distance or e-learning. This unit will contain a Google File Link Page that will provide you with a Google Doc/Slides for each activity.

This complete MLA Format Citation Bundle includes:

✏a Google Slides/PowerPoint presentation to teach the MLA 8th Edition rules for in-text citation (parenthetical citation)

✏an MLA trouble-shooting guide for students

✏ a digital and printable interactive notebook

✏quality examples from real literature

✏bell ringer practice

✏3 unique summative assessments.

The MLA 8th edition lesson on incorporating and citing textual evidence will help your students learn:

❧How to create an in-text citation for citing text evidence with and without an author's name.

❧How to lead into or out of a quote with the student's own words.

❧How to pepper a quote - taking a small section of the author's words to embed seamlessly into the student's own writing.

❧How to delete parts of the quote to seamlessly incorporate the evidence into the student's paragraph.

❧How to incorporate the title and/or author in signal phrases prior to a quotation.

❧Block style quotations.

❧How to cite dialogue

❧How to cite poetry

❧Examples from quality literature for each type of citation.

❧5 Days of Bell Ringer Practice Activities to practice incorporating text evidence with a proper citation!

Practice:

❧Three practice documents (Google Doc, PDF, and Word document) using examples from literature. (This could be used as a quiz).

3 Summative Assessment Options:

❧ Students will conduct a short, guided research project to show how they can truly embed quotations within their own writing. Graphic organizers and rubric provided!

❧ 2 Creative Choice Menu Boards. The first board will provide students with 12 options to show what they know about the proper formatting of an in-text citation. The second choice board will provide students with 12 options to show what they know about truly embedding quotations within their writing using the specific strategies taught in the lesson.

❧Students are given three passages, one fiction and two non-fiction texts- with relating themes (social justice). They are asked to close read, then respond to the given prompt using evidence from two of the three sources. They are supported in doing so with detailed graphic organizers and then asked to seamlessly incorporate text evidence for the assessment.

Citing Text Evidence GAME!

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Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to get your students practicing with MLA citations? This game will have your students practicing both citing and embedding quotations while having fun! Answer keys with "teacher tips" will support students as they practice these critical skills.

What's included:

1. A "When Punctuation Takes a Vacation" game board.

2. Game directions with mini-lessons for students.

3. Student answer sheet

4. Four types of game cards:

- "Cite it!" game cards help students practice creating the proper parenthetical citation for all types of writing and sources. This includes citing dialogue, poetry, websites, magazines, newspapers, and book sources.

- "Signal it!" game cards help students practice leading into the quote with the appropriate information. The "Signal it!" guide sheet will provide students with 14 example signal phrases.

- "Paraphrase it!" game cards will help students practice the art of paraphrasing without plagiarizing! Students will give the author credit through their parenthetical citations!

- "Delete it!" game cards will help students select the best parts of a quotation to include within their writing while using the ellipses tool to delete the unnecessary information.

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