Practice with Source Quotations and Citation Tags - Heather Young-Stafford | Library

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Guided Practice - Read the paragraph from "The Search for Delicious" by Natalie
Babbitt out of page 42 of your Daybook, and write a main idea statement
supported by source quotations with citation tags.

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Write a strong main idea statement for this paragraph.

Remember to include both a topic and a main point in your statement. Be sure that your statement is a complete sentence with a subject and a predicate.

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Give one source quotation with citation tag that supports your main idea statement.

In a source quotation with citation tag, you should use quotation marks around the quotation, and give the book title and page number in parentheses. Example: "She looked around rather wildly." (Daybook, 42)

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Give another source quotation with citation tag that supports your main idea statement.

In a source quotation with citation tag, you should use quotation marks around the quotation, and give the book title and page number in parentheses. Example: "She looked around rather wildly." (Daybook, 42)

Example of a strong main idea statement

In the time before people, the world was very different than it is now.

Example of source quotation with citation tag

"The creatures who lived on the earth in that early time stayed each in his own place and kept it beautiful." (Daybook, 42)

Example of source quotation with citation tag

"There were dwarfs in the mountains, worldwellers in the forest, mermaids in the lakes, and, of course, winds in the air." (Daybook, 42)

Independent Practice - Read the paragraph "Space Trash and Treasure" by Michael
Klesius out of page 135 of your Reader's Journey, and write a main idea
statement supported by source quotations with citation tags.

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Write a strong main idea statement for this paragraph.

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Give one source quotation with citation tag that supports your main idea statement.

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