Virginia SOL 6.RL.1

6.RL.1 is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.

• 6.RL.1.A

  Summarize texts, including determining the central theme of stories, plays, or poems, and how they are conveyed through specific details.

• 6.RL.1.B

  Describe plot developments in stories and dramas by examining the exposition, initiating event, central conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and res...

• 6.RL.1.C

  Differentiate between internal and external conflicts (e.g., individual vs. Individual, individual vs. Nature, individual vs. Society, individual vs. Technology...

• 6.RL.1.D

  Explain how static and dynamic characters impact the plot.

• 6.RL.1.E

  Explain the role of the protagonist and antagonist on plot events.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students write concise summaries that include the main events without minor details. They state a theme and support it with details from the text. They trace plot stages and explain how conflict, character change, and character roles shape events.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can place major events in the correct plot stages and explain how the central conflict develops. They can classify internal and external conflicts and support a theme with specific details. They can explain how protagonists, antagonists, and static or dynamic characters affect events.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students often give a one-word topic, such as friendship, instead of a theme statement about friendship. They may label the most exciting event as the climax or call any active character dynamic. They may confuse internal conflict with an outside obstacle and assume the antagonist must be a person.

04

How to Assess It

On an exit ticket, have students summarize the day’s story in three sentences and state its theme with one supporting detail. Then ask them to label the climax, conflict type, and one character as static or dynamic.

1. 01

   Give groups six event cards from a familiar tale; students arrange them on a plot mountain and add conflict and character labels.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: How does one character’s response to conflict reveal the theme and move the plot toward its climax?

3. 03

   Play Plot Sort: teams match event, conflict, and character cards to the correct labels, then defend one match.

4. 04

   Present a student challenging a school phone rule; students classify the conflict and predict how each role could change the outcome.

• 12.RL.1

  The 12th Grade version of this standard.

• 11.RL.1

  The 11th Grade version of this standard.

• 4.RL.1

  The 4th Grade version of this standard.

• 3.RL.1

  The 3rd Grade version of this standard.