Virginia SOL 2.C.3

ELA2nd GradeCommunications and Multimodal Literacies

SOL Standard (Knowledge and Skills Cluster)

Integrating Multimodal Literacies

Virginia Standards of Learning for English

Cluster contents

Knowledge and Skills in This Standard

2.C.3 is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.

Teacher's field guide

What This Cluster Means

What Students Need to Do

Students plan and create a short presentation using more than one way to share information, such as speech, text, pictures, or audio. They choose media that clearly support the topic.

What Mastery Looks Like

A student creates a short, organized presentation with clear speech, readable words, and relevant pictures or audio. The chosen media help the audience understand the topic without causing distraction.

Common Misconceptions

Students may add pictures, sounds, or animations only for decoration. They may use too much text, choose media unrelated to the topic, or read every word from the screen.

How to Assess It

Ask students to make one slide about a favorite animal with a title, one fact, and one helpful image, then explain how the image supports the fact.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Give pairs a topic card, printed pictures, and word labels to build a paper slide before creating a digital version.

  2. Show two slides about the same topic and ask students to explain which media choice helps the audience learn more.

  3. Play Media Match by having students pair fact cards with images, sound clips, or simple charts that support each fact.

  4. Create a one-slide school announcement with a clear message, a helpful image, and a recorded sentence for classmates.

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