Virginia SOL 12.C.3.C
The Standard
Synthesize multiple streams of information on the same or similar topic to create a summary or formulate a position.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Integrating Multimodal Literacies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students gather related information from several formats and connect ideas that agree, differ, or add context. They use those connections to write a unified summary or support a clear position.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students identify shared ideas, key differences, and useful evidence across texts, audio, video, or visuals. They produce a focused summary or defensible position that connects information from several sources.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often summarize each source separately instead of combining ideas across sources. They may treat repeated claims as separate evidence or ignore conflicts between sources. Some state a position without linking it to evidence from multiple formats.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short article, chart, and video transcript about one issue. Ask for a three-sentence summary that combines all three sources and notes one shared idea.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups an article, infographic, and podcast transcript, then have them sort evidence cards into themes and draft one combined summary.
Ask students to write: Which source most changes your view of the topic, and how does it connect with another source?
Run a synthesis relay where teams add one new cross-source connection to a shared response without repeating earlier points.
Compare a news article, public statement, and data chart about a local issue, then write a recommendation for the school board.
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Related Standards
- 11.C.3.C
Monitor, organize, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information to create a summary or formulate a position.
- 10.R.1.D
Synthesize multiple streams of information from a variety of sources to support claims and introduce counterclaims.
- 9.R.1.D
Synthesize multiple streams of information to support claims and introduce counterclaims.
- 12.R.1.D
Synthesize multiple streams of evidence to support claims and acknowledge counterclaims.
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