Grade 6 Citation Practice Worksheet
A worksheet for 6th graders to practice citing sources, understanding plagiarism, and identifying different citation components.
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Grade 6 Citation Practice
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Read each question carefully and provide your best answer. This worksheet will help you practice citing sources and understanding why it's important.
1. When you use someone else's words or ideas in your own work, you must give them , which is called a citation.
2. Copying someone else's work without giving them credit is called .
3. A list of all the sources you used in your research paper is often called a .
4. Why is it important to cite your sources?
To make your paper longer
To show where you got your information
To confuse your teacher
To avoid doing more research
5. Which of the following is an example of plagiarism?
Writing a summary of a book in your own words
Quoting a sentence from a website and putting quotation marks around it
Copying and pasting a paragraph from a source without giving credit
Using common knowledge (like 'the sky is blue')
6. You only need to cite sources if you copy the exact words.
True
False
7. It is okay to make up information for your sources if you can't find them.
True
False
8. Imagine you are writing a report about dolphins. You found a great fact in a book: 'Dolphins communicate using a complex system of clicks and whistles.' Explain in your own words how you would make sure to give credit to the book.
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. It covers an enormous area, spanning across nine South American countries. This incredible ecosystem is home to approximately 10% of the world's known species, making it a critical biodiversity hotspot. Scientists often refer to the Amazon as the 'lungs of the Earth' because its vast forests produce a significant amount of the planet's oxygen. (Source: National Geographic Kids, 'About the Amazon Rainforest', 2023).
9. In the passage above, identify the part that shows where the information came from. What is this part called?