Virginia SOL 5.RI.3.C
The Standard
Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical texts, including what happened and why based on specific information in the text.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Integration of Concepts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify how people, events, steps, or ideas in an informational text connect. They explain what happened and why, using details from the text.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students clearly name the connection, such as cause and effect, sequence, or influence. They explain what happened and why, using accurate details from the text.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list two details without explaining how they connect. They may also assume a cause, motive, or result that the text does not support.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short passage and ask: “How are these two events connected, and why did the second happen?” Require two text details.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs event cards from a short article to arrange, connect with arrows, and label with causes, effects, or influences.
After reading a science passage, have students write: “How did one idea or event affect another, and what evidence proves it?”
Play Relationship Match by having students pair detail cards, name each connection, and defend the match with a sentence from the text.
Read school emergency procedures, then ask students to explain how two steps connect and why completing them in order matters.
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