Grade 4 · Writing · Lesson 23

Use Citations and Give Credit

Whenever you use information, ideas, images, or words that are not your own, you must give credit to the person who created them. This is called citing your sources. Failing to do so is called plagiarism — presenting someone else\'s work as your own.

What this lesson teaches

1Explain why giving credit to sources is important
2Write a citation in the correct format for a book and a website
3Sort sources correctly as needing or not needing a citation

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