Virginia SOL 2.RI.3.C
The Standard
Describe the interactions between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in texts.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Integration of Concepts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find two people, events, ideas, or facts in an informational text. They explain how the two are connected, including how one affects or responds to the other.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students identify the two people, events, or ideas being connected. They explain the connection using accurate details and words such as because, caused, changed, or responded.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may describe each person or event separately without explaining the connection. They may assume one event caused another just because it happened first.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short passage about a storm canceling a soccer game. Ask, “How did the storm affect the players, and which detail proves it?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs event cards from a short nonfiction text, then have students connect related cards with string and explain each link.
Ask, “How did one person’s action affect the other person, and what detail from the text shows that?”
Play Connection Match by having students pair cause cards with effect cards, then read each completed pair aloud.
Read about school recycling, then explain how adding labeled bins changes what students do with their waste.
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- 6.RL.3.A
Describe how the interactions between individuals, settings, events, and ideas within a text influence one another.
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- K.RI.3.B
With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text
- 1.RI.3.B
Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
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