Virginia SOL 11.W.3.D
The Standard
Write and revise to a standard acceptable both in the workplace and in post-secondary education.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students write for academic and professional readers. They revise ideas, organization, tone, sentences, and word choice, then edit grammar, punctuation, spelling, and format.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can turn a rough draft into clear, organized writing with an appropriate tone. The final copy has accurate grammar, punctuation, spelling, word choice, and formatting.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat revision as correcting spelling and punctuation only. They may also confuse professional writing with stiff language, long sentences, or complicated vocabulary.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Revise “hey i cant turn in the paper cuz my computer broke can u give me till friday” for a college instructor. Add one note explaining a change.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed draft, colored pens, and a revision checklist to mark errors, improve wording, and produce a clean final copy.
Compare a text message with a professor email, then write which changes in tone, grammar, and format make the email effective.
Run an editing relay where teams correct one sentence at a time for usage, punctuation, clarity, and professional tone.
Draft a cover email for submitting a résumé, then revise it using a hiring manager checklist.
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