Virginia SOL 6.RI.1.B
The Standard
Describe how a key individual, event or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in historical, scientific, or technical texts (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Key Ideas and Confirming Details
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students follow how an author develops one important person, event, or idea across an informational text. They explain how specific examples, facts, anecdotes, or descriptions build the reader’s understanding.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can trace a person, event, or idea from its first mention through later details. They explain how examples, facts, quotations, or anecdotes add information or shape understanding.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may identify the main idea but not explain how the author develops it. They may also list examples or anecdotes without connecting them to the person, event, or idea being developed.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short informational passage and ask: “How does the author first present the main subject, then build your understanding? Cite two details.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed article to cut into sections, then label each section introduction, illustration, or elaboration and justify each label.
Ask students to write: “Which detail most deepens your understanding of the subject, and how does it do so?”
Play Detail Sort by having teams match example, anecdote, fact, and quotation cards to the subject each one develops.
Use a product manual or news article and have students mark how the writer introduces the topic and adds useful details.
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