Virginia SOL 4.C.3.A
The Standard
Select, organize, and create engaging presentations that include multimedia components and visual displays.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Integrating Multimodal Literacies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose information and arrange it in a clear beginning, middle, and end. They create presentations using images, charts, audio, or video that help explain the topic.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students organize information in a clear order and choose media that supports each main point. Their visuals are readable, accurate, and easy for the audience to follow.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may add pictures, sounds, or animations only as decoration. They may crowd slides with text, use hard-to-read fonts, or present ideas in a confusing order.
How to Assess It
- Give each student a topic card and 10 minutes to create one slide with a title, visual, and key fact. Have students give a 30-second explanation using the slide.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups fact cards, photos, and chart paper to build a three-part presentation with an opening, key details, and closing.
Ask students to write which visual would best explain a chosen fact and why it would help the audience.
Play Slide Sort by having teams arrange printed slides into a clear order and remove any distracting media.
Have students create a one-minute video announcement about a school event using a title card, photo, and spoken details.
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