Virginia SOL 10.RI

ELA10th GradeReading Informational Text

SOL Standard (Knowledge and Skills Cluster)

The student will use textual evidence to demonstrate comprehension and build knowledge from grade-level complex informational texts read.

Virginia Standards of Learning for English

Cluster contents

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students cite details from complex nonfiction to explain ideas, claims, and relationships. They analyze organization, text structure, technical terms, data displays, and techniques such as analogy or hyperbole. They evaluate reasoning and compare how authors present the same topic.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can trace how an author introduces, orders, and connects claims or ideas. They judge whether evidence and data support the reasoning. They can compare two texts and explain how language, structure, facts, and opinions shape different conclusions.
Common Misconceptions: Students often treat any quotation or statistic as relevant evidence. They may summarize paragraphs without explaining how the order, structure, or language develops ideas. They may also confuse opinion with false information or assume that charts prove every claim in the text.
How to Assess It: Give students a 300-word article with one graph. Ask them to identify the main claim, cite relevant evidence, explain how one paragraph or the graph develops it, and flag one unsupported statement.

Lesson moves

Give pairs paragraph strips from an article to arrange, then have them mark transitions and explain why the final order makes sense.
Read two accounts of the same event, then write how each author’s facts, word choices, and reasoning shape the conclusion.
Run an evidence sort where teams label cards relevant, irrelevant, opinion, or unsupported, then defend each label with the text.
Compare a news report and agency infographic about local water quality, checking each claim against the graph or table provided.

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