Unit 1: Sentences
Unit 2: Subjects
Unit 3: Predicates
Unit 4: Statements and Questions
Unit 5: Commands and Exclamations
Unit 6: Nouns
Unit 7: Proper Nouns
Unit 8: Singular and Plural Nouns
Unit 9: Plural Nouns That Change Spelling
Unit 10: Possessive Nouns
Unit 11: Verbs
Unit 12: Verbs with Singular and Plural Nouns
Unit 13: Verbs for Present, Past, and Future
Unit 14: More About Verbs
Unit 15: Am, Is, Are, Was, and Were
Unit 16: Adjectives and Our Senses
Unit 17: Adjectives for Number, Size, and Shape
Unit 18: Adjectives That Compare
Unit 19: Adverbs That Tell When and Where
Unit 20: Adverbs That Tell How
Unit 21: Pronouns
Unit 22: Pronouns for One and More Than One
Unit 23: Using I and Me
Unit 24: Different Kinds of Pronouns
Unit 25: Contractions
Unit 26: Using Capital Letters
Unit 27: Quotation Marks
Unit 28: Using Commas
Unit 29: Commas in Compound Sentences
Unit 30: The Paragraph
Unit 6: References Cited
What Are References?
When you write a report or a story, you often learn new facts from books, articles, or websites. It is important to tell your readers where you found your information. This is called citing your sources. Authors create a special list at the end of their work called References Cited. This list shows all the books and articles they read to help them write their own book. It gives credit to the other authors who did the hard work of discovering the facts first.
In this book, the author listed the experts she learned from on page 238. For example, she lists a book by Robert Marzano called When Practice Makes Perfect. She also lists a book by Timothy Rasinski called The Fluent Reader. By listing these names and titles, she is being honest and helpful. She is showing that her ideas are built on good research.
Why Do We Cite References?
Giving Credit: Imagine you drew a beautiful picture, and someone else said they did it. That would not be fair! Citing references is a way to say “Thank you” to the authors who helped us learn.
Helping Readers: If someone reads your report and wants to learn more, they can look at your References Cited list to find the books you used. It helps them become researchers too.
Try It Out
Look at the information below froma References Cited list. Circle the name of the author (the person who wrote the book).
- Wolf, Maryanne. 2005. What is Fluency?
- Fry, Edward. 2000. 1,000 Instant Words.
- Rasinski, Timothy. 2003. The Fluent Reader.
