MLA Format - MLA 9 Citations Worksheets, Examples, Cheat Sheet - Citing Sources

Teaching MLA format doesn’t need to be hard! These MLA citation worksheets explore MLA 9 with examples of citing sources and a personal “cheat sheet” anchor chart. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!

Included with these MLA Citations Worksheets and Activities:

✏️  10 Days of MLA 9 Practice Worksheets - Digital & Print

• Explore why MLA format is important, examine the parts of a citation, identify errors in MLA citations, and more!

✏️  10 Days of MLA Format Bell Ringer Questions - Digital & Print

• Review and assess students’ understanding of concepts taught in class

✏️  “Cheat Sheet” Quick Reference Graphic Organizer for MLA 9  - Digital & Print

✏️  Detailed Answer Key

✏️  Teacher Instructions for using this resource

How to use these MLA Format Worksheets and Activities:

Empower students to avoid using citation generators using these MLA citation worksheets and quizzes!  This resource includes 20 days of practice activities for MLA 9.  With these worksheets, students will identify errors, learn basic rules, differentiate between parts of a citation, and address punctuation according to MLA format. 

You can begin this resource with “Day One” of the MLA Daily Practice Worksheets.  This worksheet explores why MLA format is important using inquiry-based learning and true and false questions.  You can then distribute the “Cheat Sheet” Quick Reference Graphic Organizer for MLA 9.  Students can use this personal anchor chart while they complete the remaining worksheets and activities.

There are 10 days of Daily Practice Worksheets; in addition to this, there are also 10 days of MLA Format Bell Ringer Questions.  These bell ringer questions will evaluate students’ understanding of the concepts taught through the Daily Practice Worksheets.  

To facilitate this unit, you can rotate back and forth between teaching a new concept with the practice worksheets and assessing new concepts with the bell ringers each day; alternatively, you can rotate on a weekly basis. Each quiz day correlates to the daily practice worksheet, meaning that “Quiz Day One” will assess students on material covered on “Practice Day One,” and so forth.

To consolidate these MLA citation activities, a detailed answer key has been included.  This answer key includes instructional notes that can be used to expand on each answer.

⭒ For classrooms utilizing Google Classroom® ⭒

To access the digital version of these worksheets and quizzes, simply follow the instructions within the resource to copy the files directly to your Google Drive®.

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Deanna M. H.

March 16, 2024

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely satisfied

I have struggled with my research units and teaching students how to cite sources. This made the difference this year. While the struggle is real, my students did much better at documentation and citation. Thank you.

Ben A.
January 24, 2021

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely satisfied

These really solidified our knowledge and understanding of referencing and citations. I think this is a topic that often confuses kids and it's never been helpful to just send them to a website because they rarely look it up. They are finally writing proper citations and are actually able to UNDERSTAND citations when they read them - real literacy learning moments!

Zoe S.

August 18, 2020

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely satisfied

Worth every penny. I would have never had time to create this myself but my students really refuse to read into the rules for bibliographies on their own and end up using generators each and every time. I finally prepared them to write their own bibliographies last year and I can't wait to use this again with my students this year.

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