Virginia SOL 10.RI.2
SOL Standard (Knowledge and Skills Cluster)
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Virginia Standards of Learning for English
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Knowledge and Skills in This Standard
10.RI.2 is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.
- 10.RI.2.A
Analyze how authors use structure to explain relationships among concepts in a text, including how key sentences, paragraphs, and sections of texts contribute t...
- 10.RI.2.B
Analyze key terms (e.g., words and phrases, technical terminology) and ideas of historical, scientific, and technical texts to clarify the relationships and und...
- 10.RI.2.C
Analyze the author’s purpose and impact of literary techniques such as hyperbole, analogy, and paradox as they appear in texts.
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how sentences, paragraphs, and sections connect ideas and build an explanation. They interpret key terms in context. They explain how hyperbole, analogy, and paradox support purpose and shape meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can map how a text moves from one concept to another and explain why a key section is placed where it is. The student uses context to interpret terms and connects literary techniques to purpose and impact.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often summarize each paragraph without explaining how the parts connect. They may define technical terms from memory instead of context, or identify a technique without explaining its effect.
How to Assess It
- Give students a three-paragraph science or history passage containing an analogy. Ask them to identify one key sentence, explain its role, define one term in context, and analyze the analogy’s effect.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cut a short article into sections, then have groups arrange the pieces and defend their order using transition words and concept links.
Ask students to write: Which sentence holds the explanation together, and what would readers misunderstand if it were removed?
Play Technique Match with cards showing examples of hyperbole, analogy, and paradox, then require teams to explain each author’s likely purpose.
Compare a product manual and a public safety notice, noting how structure and technical terms guide different readers toward action.
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