Virginia SOL 2.RL.3

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

• 2.RL.3.A

  Set a purpose for reading by providing guiding questions, activating prior (experience) and background (content) knowledge.

• 2.RL.3.B

  Recognize dialogue in text and explain how it can reveal characters’ thoughts and perspectives.

• 2.RL.3.C

  Compare and contrast characters, settings, and plots in two versions of the same story from different cultures (e.g., Cinderella stories).

01

What Students Need to Do

Students use a guiding question to decide what to notice while reading and recall helpful experiences or facts. They explain what dialogue shows about a character’s thoughts or point of view. They compare the characters, settings, and plot events in two cultural versions of one story.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students read with a guiding question in mind and connect useful prior knowledge to the text. They use dialogue to explain what a character thinks, feels, or believes. They compare characters, settings, and major events across two cultural versions, using details from both texts.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat every sentence in quotation marks as a character’s true feelings. They may list story details without explaining how the versions are alike or different. They may use unrelated personal memories instead of knowledge that helps answer the guiding question.

04

How to Assess It

Give students two short versions of one folktale with one line of dialogue in each. Ask them to explain what the dialogue reveals, then name one similarity and one difference between the versions.

1. 01

   Give pairs two picture-book Cinderella versions, sticky notes, and a Venn diagram to sort similarities and differences in characters, settings, and events.

2. 02

   Read a character’s spoken line and ask, “What does this character think or want? Which words prove it?”

3. 03

   Play Dialogue Detective: students match speech cards to character feeling cards, then explain each match using a clue.

4. 04

   Invite students to ask family members how they tell a familiar folktale, then compare one detail with the class version.

• 10.RI.3

  The 10th Grade version of this standard.

• 4.RL.3

  The 4th Grade version of this standard.

• 6.RL.3

  The 6th Grade version of this standard.

• 12.RI.3

  The 12th Grade version of this standard.