Virginia SOL 11.W.1.C
The Standard
Write to describe personal qualifications for potential occupational or educational opportunities, producing clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style match the intended audience and purpose of the workplace and/or post-secondary education and language in informal and formal contexts.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify qualifications gained through school, work, activities, or service. They choose specific evidence and shape it for a job, college, or training audience. They adjust organization, wording, and tone for formal or informal settings.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can write a focused cover letter paragraph, application response, or email that matches a specific opportunity. The writing uses relevant evidence, clear organization, and an appropriate level of formality.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often name traits such as “hardworking” without giving evidence. They may list duties instead of showing results. Some think only paid jobs count, overlooking classes, projects, clubs, and service.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short internship posting. Ask them to write five sentences naming one matching qualification, supporting it with a specific example, and closing in an appropriate tone.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Students highlight a sample job posting, color-code requested skills, then attach sticky notes naming evidence from school, work, or service.
Students compare an email to an admissions officer with a text to a peer, then rewrite one request for both audiences.
Teams draw requirement and experience cards, choose the strongest match, and earn a point only after explaining the connection.
Students draft a 150-word application response for a local internship or college program, using one specific experience as evidence.
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- 12.W.3.D
Write and revise to a standard acceptable both in the workplace and in postsecondary education.
- 11.W.3.D
Write and revise to a standard acceptable both in the workplace and in post-secondary education.
- 12.W.1.B.i
Describe personal qualifications for potential occupational or educational opportunities.
- 12.W.1.B.ii
Create clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style matches the intended audience and purpose of the workplace and/or post-secon...
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