Virginia SOL 11.RI.1

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

• 11.RI.1.A

  Interpret and complete an application for employment or college admission, and summarize the intent, main ideas, and purpose of the workplace or technical docum...

• 11.RI.1.B

  Analyze the hypotheses, data, analysis, and/or conclusions in informational, historical, scientific, or technical texts, verifying the data when possible and co...

• 11.RI.1.C

  Evaluate the relevance and quality of an author’s premises, claims, counterclaims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students accurately complete job or college forms by following directions and supplying required details. They identify a document’s purpose, central ideas, claims, evidence, and conclusions. They check evidence against reliable sources and decide whether conclusions hold up.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student completes every applicable field, follows format directions, and flags questions needing clarification. The student writes an objective summary and traces how evidence supports or weakens each claim. When sources disagree, the student explains which is more credible and why.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students often guess at unfamiliar application fields, leave required sections blank, or confuse a résumé with an application. They may copy details instead of summarizing or treat any statistic as strong evidence. They also confuse a hypothesis with a conclusion and assume two matching sources prove a claim.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a short technical excerpt and one comparison source. Ask them to state the main claim, cite supporting evidence, and use the second source to confirm or challenge the conclusion.

1. 01

   Give pairs a mock job application, résumé, and instructions; have them complete the form, then swap packets to check required fields.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: “Which claim is best supported, and what evidence or counterevidence makes it strongest?”

3. 03

   Run a Claim Check relay where teams match hypotheses, data, conclusions, and outside sources, then remove unsupported matches.

4. 04

   Compare a product safety notice with a news report and manufacturer data, then decide whether the recommended action is justified.

• K.RI.1

  The Kindergarten version of this standard.

• 3.RI.1

  The 3rd Grade version of this standard.

• 5.RI.1

  The 5th Grade version of this standard.

• 2.RI.1

  The 2nd Grade version of this standard.