Virginia SOL 1.R

ELA1st Grade

SOL Standard (Knowledge and Skills Cluster)

The student will conduct research and listen to a series of conceptually related texts on selected topics to build knowledge on grade-level topics or solve problems using available resources.

Virginia Standards of Learning for English

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Knowledge and Skills in This Standard

1.R is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.

Teacher's field guide

What This Cluster Means

What Students Need to Do

Students ask a simple question about a topic and gather useful facts from books, pictures, people, or teacher-selected sources. They organize facts on a template, record them with drawing, writing, or dictation, and share what they learned.

What Mastery Looks Like

A student asks a focused question with support and finds a fact that answers it. The student records the fact with words or a drawing, places it on a simple chart, and explains it to others.

Common Misconceptions

Students may copy any detail they see, even when it does not answer their question. They may treat a picture guess as a fact or record the same fact twice. They may struggle to name where information came from.

How to Assess It

Provide a short animal page with a photo and three facts. Ask students to choose one question, record one matching fact on a chart, and share it aloud.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Set out books, labeled photos, and fact cards about frogs, then have students collect facts on a question-and-answer chart.

  2. Read two short texts about bees, then ask, “How do bees help plants?” Students draw and label one answer.

  3. Play Fact Match by having students pair question cards about weather with matching facts from provided picture and sentence cards.

  4. Investigate which playground surface dries fastest after rain, then record observations with drawings and share a recommendation with the class.

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