Virginia SOL 2.R.1.E
The Standard
Share information orally in writing, or through visual display, avoiding plagiarism and using own words.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose useful facts from a source and communicate them clearly. They restate the information in their own words through speaking, writing, or a visual.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students select accurate details and explain them without copying the source. They can share the details clearly through speaking, writing, or a labeled visual.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may copy a full sentence and change only one word. They may also think copied pictures or labels do not count, or change the fact while trying to reword it.
How to Assess It
- Give students a three-sentence animal fact card. Ask them to write two accurate facts in their own words and add a labeled drawing.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a short animal fact card, then have them build a labeled paper poster using two facts rewritten in their own words.
Read one source sentence aloud, then ask, "How can we tell this fact without copying the author's sentence?"
Play Paraphrase Match, where students pair source cards with same-meaning own-word cards and explain why each match stays accurate.
Have students make a morning announcement about tomorrow's weather using details from a forecast, stated in their own words.
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Related Standards
- 5.R.1.E
Organize and share information orally, in writing, or through visual display.
- 4.R.1.E
Organize and share information orally, in writing, or through visual display.
- 5.R.1.F
Avoid plagiarism and give proper credit by providing citations whenever using another person’s media, facts, ideas, graphics, music, and direct quotations.
- 3.R.1.D
Organize and share information orally, in writing, or through visual display.
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