Virginia SOL 12.RI.1
SOL Standard (Knowledge and Skills Cluster)
Key Ideas and Confirming Details
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
Cluster contents
Knowledge and Skills in This Standard
12.RI.1 is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.
- 12.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...
- 12.RI.1.B
Evaluate the effectiveness of the structure(s) and rhetorical devices authors use in their exposition or argument, including how the structure advances their po...
- 12.RI.1.C
Analyze the argument and specific claims in texts, examining whether the reasoning is valid, the evidence is relevant, and whether there are any false premises ...
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students complete employment or college forms accurately and interpret directions, fields, and requested information. They summarize workplace and technical documents, then evaluate organization, rhetorical choices, claims, evidence, and reasoning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students complete forms accurately, follow directions, and tailor responses to the intended audience. They summarize a document clearly and explain how its structure and language support its purpose. They judge claims by checking logic, evidence, and assumptions.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may leave application fields blank instead of writing “N/A,” or provide details that do not match the prompt. They may confuse strong wording with sound reasoning, accept irrelevant evidence, or miss assumptions presented as facts.
How to Assess It
- Give students a mock application section and a short workplace memo. Ask them to complete the fields, state the memo’s purpose, and identify one supported claim and one unsupported claim.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a fictional applicant profile and blank job application; they complete it, then highlight fields that require clarification.
Annotate an editorial, then write a paragraph explaining how its organization and word choice shape the writer’s point of view.
Run a claim, evidence, and reasoning card sort where teams reject irrelevant evidence and flag unsupported assumptions.
Compare a public job posting with its application form, then list the qualifications and details an applicant should emphasize.
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