Citing Text Evidence Lesson: Embedding Quotations Smoothly, Grades 6-8

A line lands in the group chat: "It's off." No name, no context. What is missing? Students feel the same gap when a quote is dropped into an essay with nothing around it. This lesson teaches them to lead into a quote, punctuate and cite it, and trim a long one without changing what it means.

What's inside

• 14 slides, with speaker notes on all 14
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Reading passage, 1 page: an informational article
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• All printables in one ready-to-print PDF, 6 pages

Answer key included

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